How do you guy handle your torrent traffics? My ISP is very unhappy about me downloading torrent. Do you guys use VPN? free or paid? Any recommendation?
I use a seedbox, then pull it from there.
Qbittorrent docker container via a gluetun docker container to nordvpn
make sure you have it configured in your client, force encryption, force use of tunnel. If possible isolate to that tunnel.
Mullvad setup to always be on and jump around randomly
QBittorrent can run as a webserver inside Docker (https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/qbittorrent). Then you can use a Docker image named Gluetun (https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun) which routes all the connected docker images network traffic through a VPN (either self hosted or commercial).
Switch to newsgroups.
VPN. The free ones either have stupid bandwidth or data limitations. I use PIA and it has been good for me over the past 2ish years.
How do you guy handle your torrent traffics? My ISP is very unhappy about me downloading torrent. Do you guys use VPN?
I use transmission combined with NordVPN in a FreeBSD jail. I then setup pf to ensure nothing leaks out of the VPN tunnel.
free or paid?
Never use free VPN for torrenting.
Any recommendation?
I use NordVPN but it’s suboptimal cause it doesn’t allow port forwarding. Perhaps someone else here can suggest one that allows port forwarding and has a good proven no logs track record.
Usenet/newsgroups FTW.
pfsense; force specific IP’s over PIA VPN; VMs and Dockers that handle transfers only allowed to go out on that VPN.
VPN With a kill switch. Nord works well for me and is cheap.
I have a barebones VPS with a wireguard VPN connection. There’s many VPS providers out there to choose from.
I use a paid wireguard VPN (OVPN) with port forwarding and wiresock (via EPEXGui) to effectively split tunnel only my bittorrent client. It doesn’t have a killswitch, per say, but my torrent client crashes when the tunnel goes down anyways so in practice it effectively does.
Mind you, this assumes a Windows setup. There are other a lot of other ways to skin this cat in other OS’s.
Just wondering how do you know if your ISP is unhappy about you torrenting?
Real-Debrid. Haven’t used a VPN for torrenting in years.
Personally I use deluge dockers and set their networks to use gluetun dockers. Works perfectly been running it like this for over a year with zero issues!
Use a Good Paid for VPN with either OpenVPN or Wireguard. (Most common)
Do not use PPTP, L2TP.
However I’d favor seedbox depending on how much you torrent.
PIA VPN utilizing “Split-Tunneling” so I can have Tixati run through the VPN and other apps on that VM not run through the VPN. All this running on a Proxmox host on a older Lenovo machine.
Did you know, if you use a VPN that has a separate adapter (PIA is an example) and a bittorent client that can be bound to an adapter (QBittorrent is another exmaple), you only download when the VPN is active.
The VPN shuts down, no traffic and no exposure.