When I’m connected to VPN, I lose connectivity to network elements on my local LAN. How can I configure my system to still allow local network activity while the VPN is active?
I bet you’ve figured it out by now but depending on your system the PureVPN app is likely to come with an option in the settings called split tunneling. It means that you can route your internet traffic through the VPN and keep your home network like usual
I’ve tried split tunneling with terrible success. For every 5 times split tunneling works fine, I get one time that it doesn’t and my torrent traffic doesn’t go down the VPN tunnel. Then I get letters from my ISP, so I can’t risk it anymore with split tunneling.
Instead I manually set my protocol in the PureVPN app to IKEv2, and while I do see a speed/performance hit - I do still have access to devices on my local LAN with this protocol.
you might just need to set up a virtual computer with virtual box, then instal a copy of linux or windows, put your VPN on the virtual box.
then share your torrent drives to your network, so both your actual computer and your virtual computer can read and write to them. then have your virtual computer do all the torrenting through a vpn, and your regular computer can do regular stuff.
With Split Tunneling enabled, in the qBittorrent client go into Settings > Advanced and set the interface to PureVPN. Then if the VPN fails it won’t go over your general ISP network. You may have to update the option and restart qBittorrent from time to time as the number on the interface name can change for each connection.
You have to set the torrent client to only connect with the VPN’s network interface. Then 100% of the traffic goes through the VPN because it only sends traffic through the VPN.
After that if there’s a hiccup in the VPN the torrent client just doesn’t get any data.
wooow xD this is an awful lot just for the app not to have a ‘allow lan connections’ switch along with proper split tunneling…
if you lock down the protocol, say to IKE, then the network interface name won’t change.
but i still can’t access my qbittorrent from the lan, i’m not on the same machine though.
and that’s with split tunneling.