What can my ISP know about my torrenting while using a VPN?

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Hello,

I’m new to torrenting, my setup is:

- qBittorrent, with my “Network Interface” binded as “wg-mullvad”

- Mullvad VPN

- I tested my connection and torrent client on https://ipleak.net/ and got no leaks reported

As far as I understand, this should be all that is required for privacy from IP trolls (please correct me if there is something in my setup that is not secure)

How much information can my ISP obtain about my torrenting activities with this setup?

  1. Can my ISP see that I am visiting torrent link-distribution sites (when browsing with the VPN enabled)

  2. Can my ISP detect that I am downloading and/or seeding torrents?

  3. Can my ISP detect what files I am torrenting?

  4. Do I need to be concerned over my ISP knowing what they know? (In regards to copyrigth stuff mostly)

Thank you for your help! :slight_smile:

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Nothing really. They just see you’re connecting and sending traffic to an IP (your mullvad server IP). That’s pretty much it.

They’d have to decrypt your connection to see what you’re really doing, trust me, no ISP is going to put in the effort to do/try to do that.

Just make sure your Killswitch is active Incase the connection ever drops. Other than that you should be set.

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Your ISP doesn’t care. It’s the media companies that complain and all the ISP knows is your VPN IP address.

4

To add onto what /u/ImMadYouSaidThis and /u/tplgigo have said, if you’re worried you can always check iknowwhatyoudownload.com to make sure nothing’s getting out.

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  1. Yes, only if your DNS requests somehow leak to your router during reconnects (tip: system-wide DoH or dnscrypt-proxy, I have it as a guide) - but they won’t care.

  2. No, they can only see you create a lot of traffic

  3. No, and the ISPs aren’t the watchdogs and never were.

  4. They don’t care if you don’t cause trouble. Though they surely don’t like users pushing terabytes either way

6

Your ISP has nothing to know about what you’re doing, because all content sent between you and the VPN provider is encrypted. By using a VPN, you are incognito on the internet.

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Thank you for this website! What information do I need to watch out for when looking at it?

When I connect there over a VPN, I see the things that I have been seeding/downloading since I started my current VPN IP address. I assume that is not a security issue?

When I connect there with my VPN disabled I see some stuff listed there, but only from yesterday and not any file that I myself torrented. Is that an issue? I assume it’s only someone who happend to own the IP address yesterday that I own today?