Tunneling uTorrent
Setting up Putty
1. Open putty
2. Go to connection>ssh>tunnels
3. Enter a source port, select dynamic, and press add. This is going to be the port you send your uTorrent connection through
4. Do the normal jazz to establish a connection.
Setting up uTorrent
1. Open uTorrent
2. Go to options>preferences>connection
3. Change the following:
Type: Socks5
Proxy: localhost
Port: (The port you entered and tunneled in putty)
Resolve hostnames through proxy (check it)
Use proxy server for peer to peer connections (check it)
4. Press OK
I can't confirm that this encrypts all of the uTorrent traffic, but when I tried it behind a firewall it sure went a lot faster.
Override banned ports in Firefox about:config
Sometimes you need to allow an incoming connection through a specific port that Firefox is blocking. You can override this by following these steps:
- Open Firefox
- Type this into in the address bar: about:config
- Accept the fate of your Firefox warranty
- Right-click on the window
- Select: New>String
- Enter the preference name: network.security.ports.banned.override
- The value will be the port you want to open for your browser (you can open it all of the way by entering 1-65535... however, I don't recommend this)
- Test it out