Darn you, Comcast! (BitTorrent)

[Praxis]

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.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

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.

[Bounty]

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?

[Xisiqomelir]

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

In before "bububu Service Agreement fine print"

[Praxis]

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.

[Bounty]

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?

[General Zod]

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

[Bounty]

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?

[Praxis]

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.

[Executor32]

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

[phongn]

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.

[Pu-239]

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!