I hope someone can help me with this. I am trying to configure the Proxy settings from qBittorrent to use the Psiphon Proxy.
Just in case somebody doesn’t know these apps : Psiphon is a web proxy and qBittorrent is a Bittorrent client.
When you launch Psiphon and try to connect through other country, you get two proxys in the logs window. For instance, the two proxys that Psiphon configured in my machine are :
HTTP proxy : running on localhost port 50864
SOCKS proxy : running on localhost port 50863
Now, under the “Connection” settings window in qBittorrent, I configure the server proxy settings with one of these two proxys, as the photo shows.
If I use a Bittorrent test website, such as ipMagnet, I can see that qBittorrent is well connected to the proxy server and that the outgoing connections are going through it.
But, when I try to download any other torrent, it gets stuck on “Downloading metadata…”.
I will be grateful if someone can help me or give me any ideas on how to solve this.
From what I can see psiphon actively tries to block torrent connections. This was from a rep from psiphon “The VPN mode has its bandwidth deliberately restricted, as Psiphon is keen to be all about censorship evasion , and not about downloading movies.” It seems they either throttle your connection so much or cut the connection, although mainly the first. So I would say it’s either very difficult or near impossible to torrent over it, also don’t torrent over psiphon. It just uses up bandwidth for the whole service and slows other people’s connections, get a cheap but trusted VPN or proxy service. I use PIA and put my torrent traffic through their SOCKSv5 Netherlands proxy
Why do you even need to torrent by yourself? Search for Teamdrive groups on Telegram where you can torrent online and the files get saved in Gdrive. It’s quick and a very simple process.
Thanks for your reply! I would never have discovered that by myself !
And thanks also for telling me about PIA. I’m sure it’s actually a good solution but it’s a paid solution I liked psiphon because it’s free. If you ever know another free vpn service, let me know
Basically, there are certain Telegram groups with a Torrent bot. What it does is, if you paste the magnet link followed by some command in the group, the file gets downloaded on the Gdrive, which is a public account. It means, you can also see what others are torrenting and the files that have been downloaded. So, once your file is downloaded, you’ll get a reply with the link to download or to access it online and you can also make a copy of the file to your Gdrive account. It’s pretty simple.
Open Telegram and Search for “Teamdrive” or “Torrent to Gdrive”, I’m sure you’d find few active groups.
I liked psiphon because it’s free. If you ever know another free vpn service, let me know 
