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I don't download a lot of torrents, but when I occasionally do (they're becoming an increasingly useful medium to distribute large files and projects and fan videos), I can't upload anything.


Most of us have heard of this:
http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttl ... mpossible/

Comcast is using Sandvine to make seeding impossible.

Now, I feel like a bit of a jerk being a leecher, but I'd get over it. The problem arrises in that some torrent sites actually track your ratio of downloads to uploads and block you if you leech a lot.

Has anyone discovered a workaround to Sandvine so that I can seed? It's been several weeks at this point, there's gotta be something.

I'd like to know too. I hate to be an asshole so it irritates me when I see jack squat on my upload. Because I'm using my connection very frequently for lots of different things I usually can't afford to leave a torrent open for very long and I like to at least get a 1:1 ratio.

There's apparently a workaround on Linux machines using iptables (link). Can you do something similar on a Mac, or is the OS too different?

Thanks for letting your paid subscribers use their paid bandwidth any way they want, CC.

In before "bububu Service Agreement fine print"

Bounty wrote:There's apparently a workaround on Linux machines using iptables (link). Can you do something similar on a Mac, or is the OS too different?

I tried to find /etc/sysconfig/iptables in Terminal, but there was no sysconfig folder. I don't know where an equivilant file would be on a Mac.

EDIT: I use Azureus/VUZE if that matters. It's a Java-based client available cross-platform. I realize that has no effect on the workaround we were discussing but I'm curious if there's some settings I could tweak somewhere in the app.

Searching a bit suggests that OSX doesn't really have an equivalent - there's a forwarding function and a firewall, but I don't know nearly enough about that to help. Sorry.

Have you tried the torrent app's support forums?

Setting up a secure connection through VPN or SSH might do it, though I have no way to verify this yet.

General Zod wrote:Setting up a secure connection through VPN or SSH might do it, though I have no way to verify this yet.

Wouldn't every other person in the swarm need be set up to accept SSH connections?

General Zod wrote:Setting up a secure connection through VPN or SSH might do it, though I have no way to verify this yet.

I tried this; it works, but it's very, very, VERY slow (dial-up speeds) and sometimes drops off altogether. I guess it only works with the very few others set up to accept SSH.

I have Comcast, and oddly enough, I've had no problems seeding here in Illinois. I, too, am using Azureus 3.

Praxis wrote:I tried to find /etc/sysconfig/iptables in Terminal, but there was no sysconfig folder. I don't know where an equivilant file would be on a Mac.

Try running the script offered on that page instead of trying to edit the iptables configuration file (which only applies to RH-type Linux distributions anyways).

EDIT: I use Azureus/VUZE if that matters. It's a Java-based client available cross-platform. I realize that has no effect on the workaround we were discussing but I'm curious if there's some settings I could tweak somewhere in the app.

No.

MacOS doesn't have iptables, so that won't work. Googling appears to indicate that you need to use ipfw, the man page of which is here http://developer.apple.com/documentatio ... pfw.8.html

You'll need to translate the iptables commands into ipfw ones, though that shouldn't be too hard. I'm lazy though, learn to do it yourself mac heathen!