BTGuard Review - How to Use uTorrent for Anonymous BitTorrent

I subscribed to BTGuard, a proxy and encryption service for BitTorrent. Here I describe how I anonymously use uTorrent with BTGuard.

How it works:

To join BTGuard, a username and password suffice. I choose monthly payment with PayPal. My account is immediately activated. I login to the customer area. There are two installation variants: Easy Install and Advanced Install.

Easy Install is a pre-configured uTorrent Client. It installs automatically with all settings for anonymity. I choose Advanced Install. The website offers instructions for uTorrent, Vuze, BitComet, and a general description.

I setup BTGuard for uTorrent. For Mac and Linux, BTGuard recommends the client Vuze. BTGuard supports programs that use a SOCKS 5 proxy (a proxy with a certain type of authentication).

I make these settings in uTorrent:

uTorrent settings for anonymous torrent. Login credentials of BTGuard

IP Masking

Does uTorrent mask my IP address? I create a torrent at Check My Torrent IP. uTorrent displays the IP of the proxy server, my real IP address appears nowhere.

Now speed. Using uTorrent, I download an ISO image. The download rate is 590 kilobyte per second (kB/s), a very good value for a DSL 6000 connection with 767,75 kB/s downstream capacity.

As an additional measure, BTGuard offers a software that encrypts the data traffic. The encryption is appropriate when the ISP has throttled the BitTorrent data traffic. It circumvents throttling.

However, encrypting reduces the download speed. I set aside the installation of the encryption software.

Conclusion

My IP is reliably masked. The download speed is on par with the speed before. The service is worth the money.

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