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How to get around blocked torrents using YourFreedom
Are you troubled by the firewall at your workplace or schoool or college? Unable to download your favourite songs or 
movie or software using torrent clients?Tried tweaking utorrent(or other torrent clients) , but still no effect?
Here is a small procedure which might be the solution to your problem……..Read on…….
Though different firewalls have numerous methods to block the torrents, assuming you have tried most of the basic methods of trying to unblock the torrents ,this method might work for you.Also assuming that your problem is not downloading the .torrent file and you already have the .torrent file with enough seeds. ( you may use numerous online proxies available on net to download .torrent file if your network firewall doesn’t allow you to download .torrent files.
Follow these steps:
1. Solution for blocking BitTorrent protocol – Protocol Encryption
Firstly you need any torrent client (bittorrent,vuze,utorrent etc) with the facility of PE (protocol encryption).Using protocol encryption allows you to prevent ISPs from identifying the data being sent through the P2P client.
How to do it:
For Windows users, I recommend uTorrent. I like it because it’s lightweight and straightforward but still supports the needed features.
http://www.utorrent.com/downloads
For Windows/Mac/Linux, Azureus(now called vuze)is also another option
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php?os=1
I would display the procedure with utorrent.Similar steps can be followed in other torrent clients.
Options > Preferences > BitTorrent > Protocol Encryption ( last frame)
Outgoing: Enabled ( you may also try the option -’ forced’)
Allow Incoming Legacy Connections: Checked
If you’re not using uTorrent, it shouldn’t be hard to find something like that in your client’s configuration.
2 Solution for blocked tracker connections and blocked download of .torrent extensions – Proxy Server
What we need is a connection to a proxy server.There are numerous proxy servers available online which one may use.Utorrent(or other proxy clients) lets us proxy the tracker connection without proxying the actual peer to peer connection.This lets us hide a connection to the trackers , thus the torrents can see who to initiate the transfer with. The PE is enabled already so it tunnels the the data with the encryption and provides the cover for the data.
How to do it:
There are numerous proxies on the net to work with.You may obatin their list by googling them but I tried many of them and none seemed to work perfectly with my torrent client.Some didnt support torrent clients ,some had download limits. So I used proxy software called Your Freedom.
- Register here.
- Once you register and verify your account by clicking on the verification mail , it’ll let you use its numerous servers.
- Download the software from download section.
- Configure the software and it’ll automatically select the appropriate server based on various conditions like your geographic location,your connection etc.
Use Wizard to configure YourFreedom.
3.Configure torrent client :
You also need to configure your utorrent to enable connection through server of Yourfreedom. With uTorrent :
Options > Preferences > Connection > Proxy Server
Type: Socks4
Proxy: localhost
Port: 1080
(make sure you have “use proxy server for peer-to-peer connections” UNchecked)
Open YourFreedom and click on Start Connection tab.Thats it, done. Now see your torrents downloading your favourite downloads.
Note: It has been noticed in some cases that the speed using the proxy is not as much as using the torrent client without firewall.But nonetheless, it is better to compromise a bit on speed rather than unable to download at all.
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How to get around blocked torrents using HTTP and HTTPS proxies
about 9 months ago - View Comments
Share In one my earlier posts, I had talked about a way to get around blocked torrents using YourFreedom. There is another way of getting around these blocked torrents and probably I should have talked of this way earlier as it is simpler and easier. This is by using the proxies available on net. There
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about 11 months ago
Tried every single thing but it  says “Proxy error: badsocks4 reply 2″. What should I do? Thanks in advance. I appreciate the effort btw.
about 11 months ago
I assume that you were successfully using utorrent before you were faced with firewall which blocked your access. You need to remove all the old settings of the utorrent. I suggest you delete all old utorrent profile and download the latest version and then try the above said procedure.
To delete old profile (for vista) :
Go to Owner (or your user name whatever you have named it) ->AppData->Roaming
Here you will find a utorrent folder.Delete the old settings or delete the whole folder and install utorrent again.
Hope this solves the problem.
about 10 months ago
Helo,
Thanks so much for your info on this page it really helpful. But i find it difficult in using yahoo messemger or any other with your freedom, pls help me with the configuration that will work with any of the instant messenger. You can mail afis.oseni@yahoo.com for any assistant.
More blessing to you and your family.
about 10 months ago
@ Afis : If you want your yahoo messenger to run through YourFreedom , then open YourFreedom and on top go to ‘applications’ tab. Here is the list of applications you want to run with YourFreedom. Select Yahoo messenger.
If you do not want yahoo messenger to run through YourFreedom then don’t select it , it will not be routed through YourFreedom
about 10 months ago
Hi!
Just tried playing around with YF because my university blocks torrents, but no good.
I couldn’t connect to HTTPS as seen on your screenshots but I tried out with HTTP and apparently YF servers are blocking torrent trackers as well…see the message below.
I tried for several times on my utorrent, did all of above.
Can you please help?
Thanks,
D
1: Server version: 20091007-01
0: sending parameter: min_buffersize 1500
0: Received server identity: ems14.your-freedom.de:94.231.80.100
2: AUTH_OK
0: —
Profile FreeFreedom
bw_uplink      65536
bw_downlink    65536
bind_permitted true
relay_permitted true
openvpn_permitted true
fairqueue      true
numports       0
streams        10
streams_pending 50
streams_per_sec 20
ports          none
dst_acl
permit any all
—
0: received profile information
1: starting ports
0: signalling bw_uplink=0
0: signalling bw_downlink=0
1: Current RTT: 0 ms
1: BLOCKED_PROTOCOL: Stream 4 terminated, protocol “HTTP.GET.BitTorrent_Tracker” is blocked on this server.
about 10 months ago
try to use ems18 it worked well for me.
good luck
about 9 months ago
i was unable to use it as i followed ur given steps and doing all these things when i click on start connection i got a message “”connection terminated.server says:authentication failed”"
about 7 months ago
I use my mobile phone as a modem to use the internet and my provider (T-Mobile) seems to have a limit on allowing me to download torrents (and use p2p services) – I can get d/l speeds of ~7kb/s max, whereas a regular download would be upto ~250kb/s.
Might following these steps circumvent the limit set by my provider?
about 7 months ago
pls……help…………,i do all thing what ever u say,but when i start it,then it written “â€connection terminated.server says:authentication failedâ€â€œ…………..
pls help me……………..
about 7 months ago
I tried the above procedure, but cannot download by torrent. Your freedom gives following message
“Could not create socket on port 1080, some other application is probably using it”
about 6 months ago
its blocking the installation of your freedom software!!! bastards!!! wat to do??
about 6 days ago
This method does not let torrents through. You need to modify or remove the article since it's not a working hack anymore.