silverhawk, how's ur download? do u have the same problem like me? if u don't, can share some solutions? thks man....appreciate it

errr silver..at PAW..the user agent there, what should i edit...?
leave it blank or type some name

sorry again is it the 1 below
#mark as mozilla.....??

Can someone show the steps on how to use the PAW along with pictures show each screen and what setting to do.
Thanks.

dude can teach me how u did it?i think i'm not so sure about the PAW thing,
the user agent, do i have to change anything and press apply ?or type any word i want? in utorrent i set to localhost, port 8080..but the icon is red showing error 500, 404 and failure to get request.

thx man

a proxy server is a proxy, like someone is your proxy when you use him to represent you. your bt client is you. PAW is your proxy to the Internet to the ISP to etc. etc. when you use it, it represent you to your outside connections. it is an additional software between your bt client AND the ISP and...the trackers.

proxy servers were (when having multiple phone line/modems/accounts were expensive) used to allow one and more workstations to connect the Internet through a single Internet connection which runs the proxy server. workstations uses its proxy setting to point to the proxy server and the proxy server connect out. when data flows in the proxyserver check whom it is for and sent it there = back and forth, back and forth. the bt client is not "directly" connected to the net, the proxy-server is.

becoz tmnet is blocking by user-agent you make use of PAW to FAKE the user-agent info, so that the ISP think it is eg. IE user-agent and NOT bt. you should use a string that is an actual user-agent information because the ISP cannot block browser's user-agent!

in order to use the proxy note down what default ip and port it is using, or set your own. then change your bt client to use proxy with these 2 values. there is no need to set user/password on the proxy if you are the only one using it. you must not change your bt client's port to the port used by the proxy eg proxy port = 8088 (whatever) and bt port = 60666 not 8088! so eg. in bt client's config the proxy = 192.168.1.6 port = 8088. proxy type should be HTTP unless it is SOCKS.

to test if the proxy works using a browser, go to the "connection" inside options/preferences under network/advanced/ whatever, look for proxy. use the values you noted before. if you don't do this you probably can surf but we want to test the connection through the proxy server, so change the values in the browser's proxy settings. now if you can surf the proxy is working and so should your bt client.

proxy server usually have traffic logs. check it out.

the main point is not the proxying bt client but the faking the user-agent info. a proxy server allows you to fake this info. it is all there in the first post/page.

obligatory disclaimer: i'm not using PAW or proximotron or a win32 proxy with the ability to "customise" user-agent.

hope that helps

This post has been edited by beelzebob13: Jan 26 2007, 07:05 PM

Ok...is this why i can't seem to connect to scarywater most of the time? Occasionally, i bet to connect and the spped is good too.. i'm using bittornado, can i use this as well?

if this is addressed to me. i would say...you have not given enough info. but given that your isp is tmnet or as it is referred here lovinglly as tmnut, i would say the chances is yes, you probably need to do this. sometimes scarywater trackers are finniky if i remember but that was quite a while ago. but generally scarywater was pretty fast and there are so many of them. i have zero experience with bittornado, but if the bt client can set proxy config then the chances are it will work with this solution (see 1st post!)

Ok....yes, tmnut is cheating me. well, mine can't change proxy for Bt, in fact, there's nothing like that at all... maybe i haven't chance upon it yet. if not, what client should i try? What info do you need?

and you all get sppeds that fast before? gee, mine was maximum 59kBs..andit's the 1 M package...

Ohh...and when i get to connect, i mostly get overseas connection only....

This post has been edited by dandelion2005: Jan 26 2007, 07:23 PM

hm... it seems tat paw doesn't work for me... now it seems tat all my cursings and swearings towards TMNut Shityx worked n now getting atleast 2kbps... but then only 4 out of 10 of my torrents are connected to peers... tat's not good enough...

JEEBUS, do you people even bother reading the first post?

I'm on VPN now, so my downloads are going good. Before that, it was going at 0 But if i got to connect to a japan seed/peer I will be downloading around 30-40kBps. Depends on your luck.

You can leave it blank or type something. The first post has a link that gives you a whole list of possible user-agents to use.

silverhawk, i hope you don't mind me asking, but what clients are there to use with your method? So far, i get a black light only and when i connect, it goes green. I wanna try out PAW but Bittornado has nothing on proxy. What if i wannachange it back to the original state? Will I be able to do so?Sorry, allthis proxy stuff makes me go Thanks!!

folks let us all take this as a lesson. Monopoly sucks and monopoly a la malaysia crony style sucks big time ..change isp? dont think so... is like running away from the lion straight into the jaws mouth...do you think those fat a...s sitting up there care a bit?

let us keep this episode in mind -- esp on the next general election...

is the setting in bitcomet suppose to be like this ? some how the star wars is connected even if not using this proxy server thing. but others wont connect.

This post has been edited by fubu233: Jan 26 2007, 09:18 PM


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dont know if they are from local peers or not. still the speed is acceptable lah. the tracker is http://eztv.sladinki007.eu:60500/announce. and im using bitspirit.

dammit....still not getting any speed at all..

Hey guys, im getting HTTP error 500 too. Tried redownloading the torrent but no use.
As for the header-request thing, I don't understand.
If Mozilla, how'd i put it at:
User-Agent:Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 5.1)

Is it like this?

This post has been edited by ky_ler: Jan 26 2007, 11:00 PM

update...



it's getting better. yeah. i get my speed back!

i upload more than download. up speed alwiz at max....45kb/s but dload speed depends on the seeders and peers availability....
speed does not related at all with this proxy thingy.

I'm using PAW right now and I've done everything as in the instructions in the first page. However, my problem is that I have to restart my utorrent every half an hour or so because after half an hour, the tracker status for my torrents will go from "working" to "proxy connect error: offline (timed out)". After restarting, the status will go back to "working". Any ideas on how to make it work permanently?