Throttling torrent traffic has (unfortunately) become a common practice among Internet Service Providers world wide. Malaysia isn’t sparred as most of the times, torrent downloads are excruciatingly slow. However, recently a possible solution has come to my attention. Behold TorrentFlux. Here’s a description of what it does, Xeroxed straight from its website:
TorrentFlux is a FREE PHP based Torrent client that runs on a web server. Manage all of your Torrent downloads through a convenient web interface from anywhere.
Sounds innocent enough?
Think about the following scenario, you have an unlimited or underutilized bandwidth with a web hosting provider. You install TorrentFlux in it. Requires PHP, MySQL and Python though but these are fairly standard package bundled with most web hosting. Then you set it to download whatever torrent you need. Once these are done, you download them off your web site (which is usually fast, if it’s hosted in the same country). ISPs naturally don’t throttle traffic from your website, right? So there, you’ve just bypassed the traffic throttling. Also, this brings the added benefit of saving on your electricity bill as well as hardware wear and tear since you no longer need to leave your computer on for hours just so you can get a torrent download.
Of course, the scenario I provided above is just a fictional one and for educational purpose only. Whatever you do with that any ideas you may get after reading it is totally up to you.