Best ISPs for torrent - P2P

[Ribol]

I have been with AOL forever with no problems at all, however, since they were taken over by Carphone Warehouse they have now started restricting P2P download speeds and Torrents.

Seems to me my options are to either find some techie way around it(not my forte) or move ISP.

Anyone know of any way of "hiding" what type of traffic it is - I don't need to download much(not bothered about films etc), just want it to work if I want to download something via P2P or torrent? I have googled this AOL problem and it seems I am not alone, some say the answer is by using a VPN but I don't know what that would involve.

Failing that, anyone recommend any ISPs who are not bothered about P2Ps and Torrents?

Many thanks for any input.

Edited by Ribol on Wednesday 8th October 23:40

[Plotloss]

Eclipse dont, or certaintly dont appear to, traffic shape.

[Ribol]

Plotloss said:

Eclipse dont, or certaintly dont appear to, traffic shape.

Blimey that was quick

Any idea what the VPN idea involves or indeed if it works?

[Plotloss]

Couldnt be sure.

If you use uTorrent, that has a packet payload obfusicator, which masks the packet contents.

[Mattt]

Be* were pretty good, if you can get the service.

[Ribol]

Plotloss said:

Couldnt be sure.

If you use uTorrent, that has a packet payload obfusicator, which masks the packet contents.

Apparently according to some stuff I have read elswhere it appears AOL have something on their servers that can see through that for want of better words.

Might be worth a try for myself though I have no other reason to leave AOL other than this recent issue and I would rather not have the hassle of losing a 10 year old e-mail address.

[The Dude]

IDNet don't have traffic shaping or site/port restrictions.

[Ribol]

Utorrent no different, capped.

Anyone understand how this VPN idea is supposed to work?

[Plotloss]

Ribol said:

Utorrent no different, capped.

Anyone understand how this VPN idea is supposed to work?

VPN is a secure tunnel which traffic flows through. Think of it as a virtual ringfence around your data, a network within a network.

I'm not sure how it would work in terms of P2P as both ends of the tunnel have to be secure and by its very nature the other peers wouldnt know to push the traffic through the VPN, they are protected from that by the protocol.