Toggling this option off and on again will reload the ipfilter.dat file. On newer versions of uTorrent this is enabled by default, but you may need to check if you still run an older version. In the right hand pane, make sure that “ipfilter.enable” is set to true, and then close the dialog.
Click Go and let it download from the default mirror (I-Blocklist).Īfter the ipfilter.dat has been downloaded and installed, start uTorrent and go into preferences (Options -> Preferences or Ctrl+P), and click on Advanced. This little tool will download the required file and put it into the correct location ( %AppData%\uTorrent) for use with uTorrent. There is still an easy way to get a blacklist by downloading and installing IPFilter Updater.
Unfortunately, one of the best sources for these blacklists is Bluetack, the people behind the Azureus BT client, but they have made their lists available ONLY if you donate and subscribe to their forum. But before you can use this filter, the list needs to be downloaded from the internet because uTorrent doesn’t include one. It’s a simple list that includes the IP address of just about all of the organizations you don’t want connecting to your torrents, which can then be blocked. If you are using the popular torrent client µTorrent, you can employ a still relatively little known and hidden away feature called IP filtering that’s built into the program. Luckily there are a few ways you can get round this and almost completely stop anti P2P organizations, Government organizations, or law enforcement agencies from connecting to your torrents! The anti P2P organization then has your IP address, and I’m sure you’ve all read about what can happen after that… And that is, unless you take precautions such as hiding your real IP address using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or using a third party service such as Boxopus to download it for you, once the connection has been established, your Internet address has been identified and logged. There is another and more serious downside in being connected to one of these fake peers. The amount of wasted data could run into tens or even hundreds of Megabytes per torrent and taking your files much longer to complete the download. All the data received from these fakes is not really part of the torrent file and is therefore classified as corrupt or invalid by your torrent client and is useless, or “wasted data”. One of the ways they are trying to disrupt torrent downloads is by polluting the torrent network with fake peers.
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