# Verizon FIOS flagged me for using torrents..WTF?

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**Created:** [April 13, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/verizon-fios-flagged-me-for-using-torrents-wtf/263391 "2012-04-13T20:01:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/verizon-fios-flagged-me-for-using-torrents-wtf/263391/6 "2012-04-14T06:57:54Z")

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> [@So this is what I got paid to do today](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-this-is-what-i-got-paid-to-do-today/49130/46):
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> I got a letter a few years ago from TW about high bandwidth usage related to possible P2P, Torrenting, etc.
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> I then switched to uTorrent which masks the content it is downloading so the ISP can’t tell what’s being downloaded.
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> Switch to a better torrent client.

You can enable client encryption and even ignore non-encrypted peers- also, many times their alerts based off of port-specific traffic, so you can enable port ‘randomization’ on your torrent client also.

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