Some questions about the Protocol Encription

[Ephidel]

Hello there. I've recently got UTorrent, and heard about the Protocol Encription, which basicly puts torrent useage in stealth mode, per se right? Okay, my ISP, Optimum Online, had recently put a cap on my speed. We have 3 PC's on 1 IP address [2 using Linksys, one using the actual Opt. Online modem] and maybe thats why probably. It's gone, but I have a question. If I still used the Encription under this now gone speed cap, would it bypass the cap?

My other question; I have also been given a max download speed limit of 150Kbps, meaning if it passes, they will notice it, and reput the cap. Would the Encription bypass that pick up entirely?

Next one; I have limited my upload to make sure I don't go over the undisclosed limit, and the limit amount would probably be leeching [only max of 10 KB's total for multi uploads] so would the encription also put that in stealth?

Finally; which of the 3 choices [Disabled, Enabled, and Forced] works best to use the Encription and not get noticed?

In time, Optimum Online will change my 150 kbps d/l 100 kbps u/l to 10 mpbs and 2 mbps, but for now I really wanna play it uber safe. Even though all I really use torrents for are un-U.S Liscensed animes.

I also severly apologize if I am posting in the wrong area. I just want to make sure I have all of my torrent-ness covered, because my mom had to call them and yell at them for over 2 hours to get this uncapped. They said we were cloudy [is that some term?], and that we are a server. If someone can explain those two to me, I will be a happy camper.

[Ultima]

Optimum Online is known to cap bandwidth as a whole, not just throttle BitTorrent. Meaning you have to call them and tell them to uncap you, even if they deny it.

Encryption can't bypass the 150KiB/s limit.

Encryption doesn't stealth everything, only the identity of the traffic. If you have a bandwidth cap, it won't magically bypass that limit.

Leave it enabled, in your case. There's no point in forcing it unless Optimum Online is specifically and strictly targetting BitTorrent traffic.

[Ephidel]

How can I solidly confirm if I would be capped, godly forbode, they say they aren't doing it?

And please esplain about the traffic. You mean the whole D/l U/l in Utorrent?

EDIT: How would I confirm if they are attacking torrents specificly?

EDIT2: So, if my cap for D/l is 150 KB's, and a torrent passes that speed, would they pick up on it? Because I have my max download at 50 K/b and see it as pointless to have that limited if they won't notice it.

[Ultima]

In time, Optimum Online will change my 150 kbps d/l 100 kbps u/l to 10 mpbs and 2 mbps

Eh didn't notice that part of your post... What I want to as you now is... why the wait? Why are you even limited at that speed? Are you not paying for the 10mbps speed?

You can tell if they're throttling torrents by comparing the speed of a fast torrent (OpenOffice.org) with the speed of a fast HTTP download (Microsoft.com). If the torrent is drastically slower (say, 10KB/s vs 1250KB/s, respectively), then you know they're throttling BitTorrent. I haven't heard anything about Optimum Online throttling BitTorrent, though, so I doubt that would be your problem.

If your speed is limited to 150KB/s by Optimum Online, then it's a hard cap, and you can't really surpass it anyway.

[Ephidel]

Copied from theer speed checking guide:

"*Over the next several months, Optimum Online will upgrade our entire network to enable downstream speeds of up to 15 Mbps and upstream speeds of up to 2 Mbps at no additional charge. Click here to see if your area has been upgraded."

Well, my torrents are going from single digits to 40 or so. I don't have my ports open, so I wouldn't be able to confirm if it can go faster. But it was fast last night. It hit the limit of a total speed of 100 KB with just two torrents going. So if you can show me how to solidly compare them and such, I would be able to confirm it.

So, seeing as my speed is limited, it wouldn't matter if I downloaded it at a higher speed? Because you didn't explain if they would notice that or not.

[Ultima]

Try this torrent

As for your configuration... Try forwarding your port and following the Speed Guide.

[Ephidel]

Ill do that later dood. I would need my mom to give me the admin name and pass for my wireless linksys because she installed it. And that has to be used to open ze port neh?

[Ultima]

Yep.

[Ephidel]

I did all that, but it is saying I do not have the port open.

But I noticed the IP it checks on in pretty entirely different than my IP. There obviously is something wrong, do you have a idea?

I have no clue what the fuck is wrong and im pulling out my hair on this frustration.

EDIT: My usual IP would be something like 192.168.etc, the speed test utorrnt does doesn't even start with any of those numbers.

And I don't really know how to follow the static IP thing. Because I only get one DNS thing, not two, and the DNS is the exact same as my IP

[DreadWingKnight]

192.168 means you're behind a router. It's normal for the test site to show something different. The internet side of the router has the different IP.

DNS only needs 1 (and it's probably the address of your default gateway rather than your own computer's IP) but can be 2 if you have 2.

http://portforward.com has step by step guides for setting a static IP properly as well as port forwarding.

[Ephidel]

I've been using that, and its not working for me. Its REALLY agrivating.

[Ephidel]

It works now. But, theres a problem it seems. It seems that there is a limit or so on the openoffice torrent. I donno if it should be like this, but it went around 70 KB's, and went nowhere near the 1250 KB's Ultima posted. Is that okay?

[Ultima]

The 1250KiB/s I was talking about was only relevant if you had the full 10mbps. That aside, 70KiB/s still isn't a great speed even if 150KiB/s is your maximum speed. Odd...