diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 1e36da6c9..721c0be7d 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ notifications:
 cache:
   ccache: true
   directories:
-    - $HOME/hombebrew_cache
+    - $HOME/travis/deb
+    - $HOME/travis/brew
 
 addons:
   coverity_scan:
@@ -128,13 +129,46 @@ install:
       ccache -V && ccache --show-stats && ccache --zero-stats
     fi
   - |
-    # build libtorrent from source
-    if [ "$libt_branch" = "RC_1_2" ]; then
-      cd "$HOME"
-      git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent.git --branch $libt_branch
-      cd libtorrent && mkdir _build && cd _build
-      CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -std=c++14" cmake -Ddeprecated-functions=OFF -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR="$openssl_root_path" ../
-      make && sudo make install
+    if [ "$libt_branch" = "RC_1_2" ] && [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" = "linux" ]; then
+      wget https://builds.shiki.hu/travis/deb/version
+      if ! cmp --quiet "version" "$HOME/travis/deb/version" ; then
+        echo "Cached files are different from server. Downloading new ones."
+        # First delete old files
+        rm -r "$HOME/travis/deb"
+        mkdir "$HOME/travis/deb"
+        cp "version" $HOME/travis/deb
+        cd "$HOME/travis/deb"
+        wget https://builds.shiki.hu/travis/deb/libtorrent-rasterbar-dev_1.2.x_amd64.deb
+        wget https://builds.shiki.hu/travis/deb/libtorrent-rasterbar10_1.2.x_amd64.deb
+      fi
+      
+      sudo dpkg -i "$HOME/travis/deb/libtorrent-rasterbar-dev_1.2.x_amd64.deb" "$HOME/travis/deb/libtorrent-rasterbar10_1.2.x_amd64.deb"
+    fi
+  - |
+    if [ "$libt_branch" = "RC_1_2" ] && [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" = "osx" ]; then
+      wget https://builds.shiki.hu/travis/brew/version
+      if ! cmp --quiet "version" "$HOME/travis/brew/version" ; then
+        echo "Cached files are different from server. Downloading new ones."
+        # First delete old files
+        rm -r "$HOME/travis/brew"
+        mkdir "$HOME/travis/brew"
+        cp "version" $HOME/travis/brew
+        cd "$HOME/travis/brew"
+        wget https://builds.shiki.hu/travis/brew/libtorrent-rasterbar.rb
+        wget https://builds.shiki.hu/travis/brew/6e4eb13f70df35e8fc7ff41883fef3e5c7b535dd55c78cd2ce1eae3fb4288e21--libtorrent-rasterbar-1.2.0.high_sierra.bottle.tar.gz
+      fi
+      # Copy custom libtorrent bottle to homebrew's download cache so it can find and install it
+      # Also install our custom libtorrent formula by passing the local path to it
+      # These 2 files are restored from Travis' cache.
+      cp "$HOME/travis/brew/6e4eb13f70df35e8fc7ff41883fef3e5c7b535dd55c78cd2ce1eae3fb4288e21--libtorrent-rasterbar-1.2.0.high_sierra.bottle.tar.gz" "$(brew --cache)/downloads"
+      brew uninstall libtorrent-rasterbar
+      brew install "$HOME/travis/brew/libtorrent-rasterbar.rb"
+      
+      # NOTE about the bottle name
+      # The part before the "--" characters is a sha256 hash of the string
+      # of the URL homebrew itself would use to download the bottle.
+      # In this case the URL is the following:
+      # http://127.0.0.1/libtorrent-rasterbar-1.2.0.high_sierra.bottle.tar.gz
     fi
 
 script: