Traffic Analyzer - Statistic - Torrent

[Zodler]

I have RT-AC88U and have enabled Traffic Analyzer - Statistic.

The problem is that Asuswrt doesn't see the torrent traffic as torrent. It sees it and categorize it as General.

This is probably because utorrent is used with PIA VPN configured inside utorrent with Socks5.

How can I configure Asuswrt to correctly categorize the utorrent traffic as torrent and not General?

This is to make the QOS work. At the moment I use Automatic Adaptive QOS and it is not helping that much. I get stutters with streaming web video.

 

[RMerlin]

Torrent traffic is hard to categorize, because it doesn't use a fixed port, and also clients are usually encrypting the traffic, to bypass ISP blocks/throttling mechanism.

 

[Zodler]

Ok. I remember being able to correctly categorize all torrent traffic with tomato years back but I didn't want to install tomato again.

Is there anywhere you can define rules in Asuswrt? And if no, does that mean it's not possible to have a correct QOS with torrent running in Asuswrt firmware?

 

[doczenith1]

This is probably because utorrent is used with PIA VPN configured inside utorrent with Socks5.

I'm guessing that your configuration is at least partially responsible. I'm using Vuze with a fixed port and port forwarding and the Traffic Analyzer - Statistic appears to be correctly categorizing and counting my torrent traffic. I did nothing special in the router setup other than the port forwarding.

 

[Zodler]

I have used the official configuration for PIA that you are supposed to do in utorrent.

I have done no port forwarding in the router. Is that the problem? Should I do port forwarding?

 

[doczenith1]

I have used the official configuration for PIA that you are supposed to do in utorrent.

I have done no port forwarding in the router. Is that the problem? Should I do port forwarding?

I don't think port forwarding will make a difference on the statistics but it does make you "connectable" which should yield faster download rates for torrents.

It wouldn't hurt to try. In the GUI on the LAN>DHCP Server tab I manually assign an IP address (outside of my DHCP range but not sure if that matters) to the computer that I'm running my bittorrent client on. I then set a port in my client and then set port forwarding in the router for that port (TCP and UDP) to the IP of the computer.