I subscribed to BTGuard, a proxy and encryption service for BitTorrent. Here I describe how I anonymously use uTorrent with BTGuard.
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
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.
My IP is reliably masked. The download speed is on par with the speed before. The service is worth the money.