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If any of you out there are familiar with the bittorrent protocol, you’re probably aware that many ISP’s are now starting to employ tactics to shape and throttle your bandwidth. While this, in my opinion, is completely wrong, it’s being done whether we like it or not. And, when you’re trying to download large files legally, it now becomes an absolute nightmare. But for the time being I can say that I’ve been able to circumvent Comcast’s attempt and throttling my connection. Using the two guides below I am now able to download whatever I want without having my connection being reset. So please read on if you’re having difficulty and I should mention that I use Azureus.

Azureus’ Wiki:

http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Avoid_traffic_shaping 

Encrypting Bittorrent traffic:

http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encrypt-BitTorrent-traffic/ 

Many people say to switch to a new ISP but in terms of cable in my area, it’s Comcast or nothing.  I am looking into DSL but I’ve always heard that the speeds aren’t nearly as good.  It comes down to me needing to do a little research.  But for the time being, this has worked so I’m going to stick with it.

Yesterday, I was finishing up a post and actually approving a comment when the page just hung.  I then opened up a new tab and attempted to load my site only to find that my account had been suspended.  Just like that, no warning, no phone call, no email, nothing.  I was completely disconnected.  Come to find out, the site was eating up too much CPU usage.  From what was described, it sounds like a memory leak or just a bad executable but I’ve now been switched over to a semi-dedicated server.  I’ve also lost the post and comment that were up when all of this happened but I guess it’s not a big deal because my sweet cooler modification didn’t end up working out.  The lesson learned out of all of this - I’m not too sure other than be sure to research your host before hand because it’s tough to contact them when there’s no emergency phone number and you lose email due to them suspending your site.