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This should work for most users. DO NOT USE THIS IF YOUR SCHOOL/WORK/ISP STRICTLY FORBIDS YOU TO NOT USE PEER TO PEER, OR IF IT IS ILLEGAL IN YOUR JURISDICTION. YOU RUN THE RISK OF LEGAL LIABILITY.

Download Tor from here.

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Tor is short for The Onion Routing. Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy.

Individuals can use Tor to keep remote websites from tracking them and their family members. They can also use it to connect to resources such as news sites or instant messaging services that are blocked by their local Internet service providers (ISPs).

After that, you will need to load Privoxy.
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Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes.
Privoxy and Tor together keep you anonymous online with web-browsing, plus Privoxy keeps you safe by blocking out a bunch of nasty stuff.

After you load Tor, it will be listening on your computer on port 8118. Launch Limewire, go to Tools -> Options. Click on Advanced, and go to Proxy. Choose HTTP, put localhost in the Proxy box, and 8118 in the Port.

You won't notice a difference in speed, except for when Tor is slow. I downloaded some MP3s to test out the speed, and I noticed no difference. I received a 120kb/s download, and a few 40kb/s downloads. Tor will be affected when large amounts of users use it, or traffic on p2p is large.

LordOfTheRings stated to me in a PM to change the default port from 6346 to something like 80, 22, 8080, 21, etc. because that will bypass someone on Tor blocking 6346 from going through their system.

I tried it.. no luck. No luck either connecting through Tor with default 6346/tcp.



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USING TOR WILL NOT SPEED UP YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION. THERE IS NO WAY TO SPEED IT UP WITHOUT SPENDING MORE MONEY TO BUY A BETTER CONNECTION, SO DON'T ASK. I KNOW SOMEONE'S GONNA SAY IT.


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DO NOT USE TOR TO DOWNLOAD ILLEGAL THINGS OR VIOLATE LAWS IN YOUR AREA. ITS A LEGITIMATE APPLICATION, AND LIKE MOST LEGITIMATE APPLICATIONS, IT IS ABUSED BY END-USERS.

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Tor download links for all platforms:
http://tor.eff.org/download.html

Privoxy download links for all platforms:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=11118

Running the Tor client on Mac OS X
http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-doc-osx.html

From Tor:
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The Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more people who run servers, the faster the Tor network will be. If you have at least 20 kilobytes/s each way, please help out Tor by configuring your Tor to be a server too. We have many features that make Tor servers easy and convenient, including rate limiting for bandwidth, exit policies so you can limit your exposure to abuse complaints, and support for dynamic IP addresses.

Having servers in many different places on the Internet is what makes Tor users secure. You may also get stronger anonymity yourself, since remote sites can't know whether connections originated at your computer or were relayed from others.
That means Tor is like P2P, you use it, you should contribute to it. Link to configure a Tor server:
http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-doc-server.html

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I run Tor as a server also. You can use it for any program that asks for a HTTP server and a port. IM programs, IRC chat programs, web browser, etc.


I think this will work for a lot of the users here. I got bored and thought about to help everyone out with Tor. I knew Tor had the potential because I think most admins can't block it because all the data is transferred over port 80/tcp.

If this works for you, tell us what ISP you were being blocked from accessing p2p and we'll add it to the list


EDIT. damn, hit a bump. a host is blocking 6346/tcp. i'm not suprised. they might do the block on their own Tor server for liability purposes, but the Tor servers aren't supposed to log, nor have firewall rules, however I'm sure the host I'm using has 6346/tcp blocked it might happen all the sudden because hosts change quickly, often without you noticing.

you'll notice this on the Tor window

Aug 27 16:32:57.144 [notice] Tried for 60 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:6346. Giving up.

Basically means everything is lagged on Tor, so disconnect, wait 10 minutes and reconnect with Limewire.

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10. If your computer isn't running a webserver, please consider changing your ORPort to 443 and your DirPort to 80. Many Tor users are stuck behind firewalls that only let them browse the web, and this change will let them reach your Tor server. Win32 servers can simply change their ORPort and DirPort directly in their torrc and restart Tor. OS X or Unix servers can't bind directly to these ports (since they don't run as root), so they will need to set up some sort of port forwarding so connections can reach their Tor server. If you are using ports 80 and 443 already but still want to help out, other useful ports are 22, 110, and 143.

yup, they're making it so ISPs can block the traffic coming through Tor by making them go through ports that would make people mad if the ISP shut them off.
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Ok I have a question would it do any good to set my XP machine up as a server. I have the bandwith needed and very fast hard drives 2-Fujitsu U320 74GB 15,000 rpm set up 0-Raid Running a AMD64 3200+ OC to 2.4ghz. Will it use much memory. If I set it up as a server I do not intend to leave it on 24/7 it will only be left on 24/7 when I am home. Does anyone know what the side affects could be on me running LW at the same time.
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tor doesnt eat up much resources. im running tor, privoxy, trillian, firefox, limewire, xircon irc client and winamp right now and im around the 20-30% CPU usage right now.


its an amd k6-2/350 with 192mb of ram.


to sign up as a tor server, you have to send them an e-mail to setup everything. if i had bandwidth to spare, i'd gladly do it.
however, my bandwidth is shared with the computers in my house and my neighbor right now, so i'd hate to have some bad lag.


tor would take up ~ 20-30k and most likely that'd affect your download speed if you're on dsl/cable.. your download speeds are knocked down a lil.


i wish i had a full t3 45mb up and 45mb down... mmmmm... for a t1 here, they want $600/mo + 2 year contract
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Salut --does TOR play nice with OS X.3 or .4 and LW? I'm curious, and think that the EFF support is well worth the effort to get TOR more widespread.

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Salut Stief I don't know, haven't used it yet. My contribution thus fas was only opening the banmstoo' solution to other platforms. He runs it on a lowly K6 350, so performance of Tor and privoxy should be acceptable on any mac supporting os x. The clear limiting factor here is the bandwidth provided by the Tor system. Also, you may reach sometimes a Tor proxy from a network banning P2P or Gnutella....

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Merci et voilà

I'll be switching to tiger and a new laptop in the next month or so, so I guess I'll wait till then to start playing.
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Privoxy and Tor together keep you anonymous online with web-browsing, plus Privoxy keeps you safe by blocking out a bunch of nasty stuff.
banmicrosofttoo I followed these instructions, but still no luck. Works great with Firefox, but I can't connect to Limewire. In Limewire, I have the proxy set to use localhost on port 8118. That doesn't work. If fact, Privoxy doesn't even register a connection attempt. I can connect to Limewire using Tor, settings SOCKS, port 9050, but then the Tor window goes nuts, probably from all of the traffic, then shuts down.

Are any of you currently using Tor/Privoxy with Limewire? I have Limewire Pro 4.9.29. Any suggestions, helpful hints would be great.
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