Fix many slow torrents/possible security vunerabilities

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 2:01 am

Peer Guardian 2

Unfortunately not supported on Vista

Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 7:15 am

there should be no restrictiona on torrents

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:49 pm

PG2 Is supported on Vista an the 64Bit flavor as well... Just go to the Peer Guardian Forums...

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:57 pm

I assume u mean extract the nipfilter.dnt.gz file to nipfilter.dat file, rename it ipflter.dat and place it alongside the utorrent.exe file in the utorrent folder.
Otherwise, I haven't a clue how to "copy to %appdata%" as a folder superior to the utorrent folder. My utorrent folder is not within a %appdata% folder. Mine is C:/Program Files/uTorrent/

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:17 pm

The folder being refered to is c:\documents and settings\username\local settings\application data\ which is a hidden system folder.

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:53 am

wmpl wrote:

I assume u mean extract the nipfilter.dnt.gz file to nipfilter.dat file, rename it ipflter.dat and place it alongside the utorrent.exe file in the utorrent folder.
Otherwise, I haven't a clue how to "copy to %appdata%" as a folder superior to the utorrent folder. My utorrent folder is not within a %appdata% folder. Mine is C:/Program Files/uTorrent/

Hmm there is a problem that no one seems to be mentioning - theft as you are downloading some people not only want everything free they boost their downloads by taking part of your download ( it's well documented) in utorrent go to peers and right click and tick the debug - there's a whole list here that you can play with see if that makes a difference when i first encountered aproblem this was the answer

coolidge · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:16 pm

OG wrote:

The folder being refered to is c:\documents and settings\username\local settings\application data\ which is a hidden system folder.

what if youre on vista? i only remember the "documents and settings" folder in xp and previous versions

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 5:43 am

C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Roaming

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:33 pm

This is great! I had been having a hard time getting decent download speeds the past day or two and this seemed to fixed that immediately!

Too bad PG2 doesn't seem to support Vista, I'm about to try it out anyway.

edit: nevermind, doesn't claim to support Vista but it seems to work.

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:33 pm

Yes it does work on Vista there is even a way to get it to work on Vista x64 though is harder to get going.

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:03 am

uhane wrote:

A ok Valdect, Iwill do t
hat. and thanks again..U

same here i well do the same

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:49 pm

Vuze bans bad-data IPs. This works for Me!

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:49 pm

Valect wrote:

There was a news post that I lost the URL to, explaining why so many torrents are slowing down and such.
The gist of it follows:

Quote:

The MPAA and RIAA, as well as various other organizations are connecting to torrent trackers and are feeding bogus information to clients. this information is downloaded by the clients, but is discarded for not matching hashes.
This in turn slows down torrents because users do not get the required pieces, and can not seed them as well

something like that Smile

anyways, you can prevent this with the utorrent ( http://utorrent.com/ ) client and this file http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/nipfilter.dat.gz .

All you need to do is copy nipfilter.dat.gz to
%AppData%/utorrent/ipfilter.dat
then open utorrent, open preferences (ctrl + p) > advanced > set ipfilter.enable to true and click ok.

You're set after that.

This file blocks those IP addresses from connecting, which not only prevents you from downloading bogus data, but also (to an extent) stops them from watching your traffic.

a more realistic way to do this would be to move that file to your hosts file, but i haven't come up with a way to change that file to the right format (someone wanna do that for me? Twisted Evil

)

Edit: This file is from http://bluetack.co.uk and they supposedly update it fairly often, so check back there sometime

Edit again: Slap me if i shouldn't have stickied this. people were pm'ing me about it, figured it's actually useful *shrug*

Maaad info yo! peace & head grease

u just need 2 register 1st guys & gals.

keep tha info free dude

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:21 pm

seems nipfilter.dat.gz link is now invalid ...

Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 3:02 am

PG won't work either on my Vista 64 <_<
so i use ipfilter for µtorrent ! and better than downloading each time and extracting the file from bleutrack "ipfilter_v2" does all the work Smile

search for ipfilter_v2 it' will make it alot easier