Comments on: Ban peers / IP addresses in uTorrent

By: food for thought

food for thought — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:03:25 +0000

Just wanted to add a little comment regarding the anti leacher posts. I live in Aust and unfortunatley my ISP maintains a literal monopoly on what internet connection I can have ie. I have no choice its bigpond or NOTHING. They charge me 2-3 times as much as any other ISP and give me a fraction of what any other ISP offers, additionly they count all uploads against my 12gig per month limit… 12 gig per month… and they count the uploads… additionly my connection is via cable which allows me to get a realised downspeed of up to 400k per sec on a really really good day with a LOT of seeds and pears however my upload is limited by the ISP to literally 15k per second. If I allow utorrent to use all 15k of my upload potential my internet connection becomes effectively useless as my computer can no longer respond with acks to the incoming syn packets I receive… so in short while there are folks who are abhorent in the their leaching care for no one else ways there are also folks like me who only get to down a fraction of what the rest of the world does and cannot even technically/willing do the “right thing” by the community. BTW I pay around $95 aud per month for my connection pretty sweet huh…

By: aydin1954

aydin1954 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:13:29 +0000

thanks for that
using ‘kick and ban’ in vuze is obviously simpler
i have used that to ban every peer i encounter from israel
i do not want to share with anyone who supports an apartheid regime which is murdering palestinian children
your method requires me to first see the country flags and then note the ip addresses so that when i turn off ‘resolve IPs’ i know which ones are from israel. the good thing is that these addresses are banned forever from all torrents.

By: kastanedowski

kastanedowski — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:02:39 +0000

Pressing “reset ban” works anyhow to download faster my file?

What about pressing “Clear peer list”?

thanks

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:34:07 +0000

I agree with some of what you say – but isn’t feature lock typical of many other non-open source software? And any way, we have alternatives (like Deluge on Windows/Linux and Transmission on OS X).

By: utorrent devs are fascists

utorrent devs are fascists — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:49:36 +0000

They ignore requests for useful (anticheating) features and lock (usually belittling) questions. It’s bad enough the mysterious change of ownership around version 1.6. Why do lazy utorrent devs refuse to add a block client context menu option (right click menu in peer tab)? Why to rude utorrent devs refuse to add undesirable client (BitComet) blocking features?

F’em

Your tutorial does not show how to block IPAs *in* utorrent… it shows how to block DESPITE utorrent devs

By: Leishtek

Leishtek — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:23:23 +0000

yup, this is a very useful guide. I had forgot (duh, i have a pc science degree after all…but in programming) that all you needed as the IP & then name the file with .dat for use in uTor. Now if the average user would ALSO learn how HOSTS files work, then the Pc world would be a much, much safer place!

By: victor

victor — Sat, 09 May 2009 08:24:57 +0000

thanks a lot mate !!! … simple and sensible !!! …

i wud just like to add one more thing :

if already the ipfilter.dat exists , then just open that file with notepad and enter ur un-desired ip address in a new line .. and save again ! …

By: larry

larry — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:06:25 +0000

super article.

By: T.

T. — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:20:08 +0000

I’m currently working on a script to compare the upload rate to the download rate of peers, and output the resulting IPs based on the ratio determined by the user. Script will be able to enable “ipfilter.enable”, and append resulting IPs to ipfilter.dat. End result will be for users to start blocking leechers. And by leechers I mean users who download (for example) at 500kb/s and upload at .5kb/s. I know the usual complaints… “It will kill swarms”. No it will not. If you’re sharing at a reasonable rate (based on your download rate) you will have nothing to worry about. If you’re one of the ones that take and take and take, while giving nothing back (like it hurts you somehow) then you’re going to get a taste of your own medicine. Search your favorite torrent sites for “leech killer”.

By: the frog

the frog — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:48:19 +0000

thanks for this , Im having problems with peer guardian & its probably better to block with the app that is doing the transfers anyway

By: kaarthik

kaarthik — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:34:13 +0000

thank you very much…
cool man..

By: Bee Thailand

Bee Thailand — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:57:30 +0000

Thank you for your knowledge, I have been annoyed by some peers for a long time. This help me so much.

Again, Thank you

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:55:21 +0000

@Quakeboy: uTorrent isn’t particularly slow. However, the two links below might help speed up uTorrent, Azureus etc.:
http://torrentfreak.com/speed-up-your-torrents/
http://torrentfreak.com/optimize-your-bittorrent-download-speed/

If these don’t work and it’s your internet connection that is acting up (perhaps because your ISP throttles torrents), no tweak can help you – get a better net pipe.

By: Quakeboy

Quakeboy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:50:06 +0000

I had tried uTorrent once…
but left it as it was sooo slow

have some tips or tutorials to actually use it efficiently?

By: Haris

Haris — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:47:22 +0000

Never came across such a situation, but anyways, thanks a lot for sharing the tip.