FEATURE: Enabled lazy bitfield as a counter-measure for ISP speed throttling

15 years ago · 5af8b7c0e2
2 changed files with 3 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/1
+++ b/1
@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
				@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
    - FEATURE: Display close tab button into the tabs in search engine (Qt >= 4.5 only)
    - FEATURE: Show official documentation when pressing F1 key
    - FEATURE: Search engine plugins now handle HTTP protocol gzip compression
+    - FEATURE: Enabled lazy bitfield as a counter-measure for ISP speed throttling
    - FEATURE: Announce to all trackers specified for a torrent (µTorrent behavior) (libtorrent >= v0.15 only)
    - FEATURE: Added per-torrent super seeding mode (libtorrent >= v0.15 only)
    - FEATURE: Support for storing symbolic links in .torrent files (libtorrent >= v0.15 only)
--- a/src/bittorrent.cpp
+++ b/src/bittorrent.cpp
@ -291,6 +291,8 @@ void Bittorrent::configureSession() {
				@@ -291,6 +291,8 @@ void Bittorrent::configureSession() {
  }
  sessionSettings.upnp_ignore_nonrouters = true;
  sessionSettings.use_dht_as_fallback = false;
+  // To prevent ISPs from blocking seeding
+  sessionSettings.lazy_bitfields = true;
  //sessionSettings.announce_to_all_trackers = true;
 #ifdef LIBTORRENT_0_15
  sessionSettings.announce_to_all_tiers = true; //uTorrent behavior