Private Internet Access

Oftentimes private trackers see less traffic than public trackers because people are wary of their ratio so they don’t download as much. Traffic often increase during freeleech. Also, nordvpn doesn’t allow port forwarding, you should chose another vpn like proton or pia. If you don’t forward your po

Get proton, pia, airvpn, torguard or any other vpn that allows port forwarding. This is your limiting factor. Also look how to bind the vpn interface to qbittorrent from advanced settings.

For me it's Proton because it supports P2P. Mullvad is great too, though. Mullvad, Proton and PIA Are the holy trinity of good VPN's imo

First of all, a lot of users will block you on SoulSeek if you aren't sharing anything and it's also dick move to download and not upload back. Why don't you use a VPN service that offers port forwarding like PIA VPN? Just run a script to update your port number when it randomly changes.

I've been running PIA for years now with no issues. I run it from Windows Server 2025 and qbittorrent installed. Also, I run it with a split tunnel and have only qbittorrent run through the VPN. So far, after many years and GBs, everything is good.

Nord or PIA (private internet access). What you're looking for is a VPN provider that confirms no logs and has been tested. Both of them have been proven in public court. I personally use PIA but am looking to swap to Nord in the near future when I stop being lazy about it. Learn how to bind your To

You will know better than us whether copyright laws are enforced, or what the legal scenario is in Peru. In many Latin American countries a VPN isn't needed, but check for yourself. Also check what your agreement with your ISP says about P2P traffic, again, you are the best person to figure that out

I would recommend qbittorent, which will likely be a popular opinion. It’s got a very good reputation security-wise, and it’s got perhaps the largest active user base so it should be reasonably easy to get help on any issues. As a disclaimer though I have only tried maybe 4 clients, of which Tixati

For anyone that comes here in the future, I was able to get up and running again. Fix:Turns out the whole issue came down to two things: PIA killed port forwarding on all U.S. servers, so Gluetun couldn’t find anything usable when I had VPN_PORT_FORWARDING=on. I was trying to connect to a US-based ser

Were you making sure to pick a VPN location with a low ping? I get full speed on torrents over VPN with PIA.