How do I know if my IP is hidden?

VPN
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Dumb question but how do I know if my IP is masked and I’m not leaking?

If I google what is my IP it does show me the VPN IP. And I have Killswitch on. But I’m just paranoid because I’m getting near perfect speed on torrents while connected to a out of country server and I’ve never seen that before. Granted I didn’t use a paid VPN until Now but do I have anything to worry about?

Seems too fast lol. As if I’m using a direct connection

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If google (and PIA’s website header) tells you you’re good, the only other thing to check is DNS leaks and IPV6 leaks.

I often max my home internet on (linux :wink: torrents through PIA as well.

All these folks complaining about speeds in this sub seem to have gigabit connections, or are running into the ~150Mb/s performance cap in Windows’ TUN/TAP interface.

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For checking your torrent IP use http://ipmagnet.services.cbcdn.com/

I seriously suggest you switch to using the socks5 proxy if your torrent client supports it. If the connection fails it’ll simply no longer download.

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The best place to ensure your IP is being masked is our website - it has an IP checker near the very top of the page. If your VPN service is working properly, the notice will show in green text the IP you’re connected to and that you’re protected.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

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Please let me know if you have any other questions.

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https://old.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/bia6sx/test_your_privacy/

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This is a good site to test - http://www.doileak.com/

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I would skip asking Google search what your IP is… I’ve noticed it tends to show what I assume is cached data sometimes. It will show my external IP when I am in fact on my VPN.

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Do you have any guide on seeding through PIA?

Whenever I enable pia connection, it works fine. I have internet I can download. I have port forwarding enabled and pia shows port 59000.

Well when I try to seed using port 59000, no incoming connections are allowed.

When I disabled pia I can seed fine.

When I have pia enabled and go to canyouseeme and check port 59000, it passes. Port can be seen.

But both uTorrent and qbittorrent both reject incoming connections so I cannot seed. Any idea why?

Nvm. Had to disable dht