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p2pnet.net News:- The eMule team has released a new version of eMule, which supports protocol obfuscation, a feature which causes eMule’s communication to appear as random data and makes it more difficult for ISP’s to throttle eMule users.
The new version has the option of only connecting to clients that support this feature but it has the option of connecting to all clients as well.
Protocol obfuscation has been the most requested feature by eMule users for several months. It has been reported that Brasil Telecom has been aggressively throttling traffic generated by eMule. This has made eMule practically unusable for thousands of Brazilian’s and although NeoMule, an eMule mod, added protocol obfuscation several months ago it only partially alleviated the problem.
NeoMule users represent a very small percentage of the ed2k network and although their protocol obfuscation feature works well, it only works if the users it connects to are also using NeoMule.
Recently, more and more ISP’s have began throttling P2P protocols. Numerous ISP’s have targeted the BitTorrent protocol and in response Azureus, BitComet and uTorrent have implemented protocol encryption.
Overall, their protocol encryption feature has been effective but Allot Communications claims that they have developed technology that allows ISP’s to specifically target and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic.
It’s clear that eMule’s protocol obfuscation feature will be well received by the eMule community but it remains to be seen how long it will take for ISP’s to figure out a way to throttle eMule’s traffic once again.
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September 10th, 2006 at 1:22 am
“Why do you keep acting like criminals?”
“Because you keep treating us like criminals.”
Just another sad illustration of the increasingly high and narrow hoops Internet users must jump through to exchange data, without any regard to the actual legality of such exchanges.
September 10th, 2006 at 2:41 am
P2P traffic comes from lots of different IPs and leaves lots of open connections. It’s not hard to spot it on a network, encrypted or otherwise.
The REAL question is whether people are okay with their ISPs making choices for them on what kind of traffic they’re allowed to have access to.
If your ISP throttles p2p and you can switch to another one, do it. And let your old ISP know why you’re changing so they’ll realize that p2p is important to consumers…er, customers.
January 15th, 2007 at 2:00 am
with protocol obfuscation turned on, emule is possible to connect to a network via 3G but cannot download any files. it can only search. this sucks because thousands of people are using 3g to connect to the internet!
April 16th, 2007 at 3:35 am