[ubuntu-uk] P2P Ubuntu (was Just testing)

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Sun Oct 1 11:37:42 BST 2006


Sean,

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 11:06 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:

> That's interesting because his ISP is Pipex... my ISP is UKOnline... it 
> was Pipex that we tested on.. as you say we were both using their settings.

Very curious. Maybe it depends on which service you take from Pipex.
I've been with them for a while so I'm on the Solo service.

> So, encrypted torrent... is that something that one can switch on for 
> any p2p traffic or is that specialist torrents? The one that we did the 
> testing on where he was getting great speed was the infamous Pirate Bay...

Encryption is not support by all clients yet. Azureus is one that does
support it, but it is a heavyweight Java application. It also depends on
the members of the swarm supporting encryption. I only know about this
for BitTorrent.

Regards,
Tony.
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