Also asked them if torrenting legal stuff is allowed and they said no.
Try Usenet instead. Or get a seedbox and let that do the torrenting for you. Either you have a DNS leak with your VPN, or they’re just guessing your torrenting because of how much traffic you’re using all the time. The DNS leak is more likely.
There’s an issue with your VPN.
What VPN service do you use?
It probably isn’t which one that’s the problem, it’s more likely your setup.
If you can, try disabling IPv6 entirely, turn it off in your operating system and your router. I’d bet you’re leaking past the VPN that way.
Wouldn’t advise turning off ipv6. We are probably getting near the point where some public services will disable or offer v4 as only best effort, and when this happens, your connectivity will be broken for certain things if you disable v6. Heck, it’s to the point now where all my home hosted services are v6 only.
The better solution is to just get a VPN that supports ipv6 like airvpn or mullvad. I think pia disables ipv6 while the tunnel is up, which is better than disabling ipv6 altogether.
To validate the tunnel is working properly you can use something like this.
There is also a Torrent Address detection section, that when you activate it, will provide a magnet link that will show your ip to ensure that it is tunneled properly.
Dude, it’ll be a longer time than this guy is going to be on his ISP before he’ll need to worry about ipv6.
OP - feel free to disable it, IMO.
Seriously; they’ve been talking about v6 for like 3 decades now. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Many ISPs are no longer handing out even 1 public ipv4 address per account, and instead opting for CGnat which further breaks and stratifies the internet.
Tmobile for example is 464xlat which is even worse than cgnat since it requires tampering with dns responses.
Given the situation many ISP are in, most serious companies offering services on the internet have supported ipv6 for a long time now in order to offer the most competitive service possible. And with cloudflare now serving up a large amount of traffic, a lot of all traffic is v6.
Most ISPs already use it, what are you on about
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I actually had to disable ipv6 just because Halo Infinite wouldn’t load the UI. A couple websites were unreachable with it on too. Seems like it will still be awhile.
WireGuard is increasingly popular as far as I can tell. And if I understand correctly, designed more for IPv6.
I only heard good things about mullvad vpn.
I heard they stopped port forwarding though.
Express VPN
So you’re effectively blocked from installing some Linux distros? What the fuck
Dunno if anyone mentioned it, but if I had to guess, you have a DNS leak. Basically your DNS requests are going through your ISP instead of the VPN, resulting in them knowing where you’re going online anyway. Be sure to check for those DNS leaks and setup a custom one if your VPN doesn’t offer one. Don’t forget, DNS traffic over port 53 is also unencrypted, so unless you force those through the VPN, they could still know where you’re going.
I had a similar problem where my ipv4 traffic went through the VPN, but for ipv6 it was straight to clearnet
You also need to force your torrent client to use the VPN network adaptor. You can do this in qBitorrent advanced settings
Seedbox.
Make sure your torrent client is using your VPN adapter
If you are on VPN they cannot know shit. Only that you use a VPN… So either they are detecting the VPN and lying about what they know or you fucked up setting the VPN and the torrentina doesn’t go through the VPN.
They’ll still see upload/download volumes, speeds and patterns. Just not destinations. That alone could indicate torrent.
That could indicate a lot of things. It would be very difficult to distinguish a torrent from something like cloud folder sync. And that would still be a statistical guess. No ISP is going to go after customers because their VPN traffic is potentially torrent traffic.
Besides, even if they could detect that torrenting is taking place, they will not know what data is being transferred from and to where. It’s a meme, but torrents are actually sometimes used for non-copyright infringing data.
I was providing Linux distros and Machine Learning datasets some time ago, because official servers where slow. I’m the meme I guess
Cheeky fuckers telling you no bittorrent at all is allowed. They’re banning protocols now…
Because some idiot isps decided that torrenting is considered serving media/files to others and is thus running a server and thus require you to use Business plans that cost 5x as much.
I torrent on a seedbox and then download to my local machine with rsync. ISP shouldn’t care about an ssh connection.
This is the way!
Do you use a seed box service or how does it work?
You basically have a remote server, usually a cloud or bare metal, where you do all your torrenting. It’s fairly easy, as there are plenty of clients with web UI like Transmission that can be setup super easily via Docker. Make sure to protect it somehow though. Or use a torrent CLI tool and do everything via SSH.
I use ultra seedbox, but there are plenty of other companies you can buy from
Check ipleak.net to see if there’s identifiable info coming through. Use their torrent check as well.
I have a raspberry pi. Does anyone have a good guide on setting up a raspberry pi for secure torrenting from my home?
your VPN provider, sucks, and is leaking, so they can see all your traffic, and sue you for it, after they cancel your service. get a better VPN provider like NordVPN, or another major, and STOP using whatever the hell VPN you’re using now, it might already be too late
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probably your real non VPN IP leaked
My gf got several letters and I started using a VPN. Easy peasy. No problems.
Now I’ve moved to seedboxes (seedhost.eu) and private trackers. First I buy an invite to a private tracker (if you spend like $20 you can get an invite to one of the less prestigious ones and like 500gb of quota). This is kind of a process since private trackers are 1000% against selling invites so it’s kind of a “marketplace” forum type deal. Not a 1 min paypal transaction. Took me a couple days to get my first invite.
Then use that tracker on the seedbox which has a few tb disc. Then I sftp in (I have used the app Forklift for many years and highly recommend if you’re on a Mac, it’s amazing) and transfer down.
I get like 7 MB/s through VPN which is alright for me and even without a VPN, it’s just random traffic coming from a server. You aren’t torrenting from your machine so there’s no issue.
To get quota on the trackers, you can either buy an invite that includes some quota or build it up yourself. The seedboxes I use have like 100 MB/s upload speed so you’d just download some super popular (freeleach if possible) torrents and then seed for a while. If your invite comes with some quota, likely you’ll have more quota than you know what to do with. I bought an invite with a 100gb quota and now I have like 4tb of quota.
The downside is cost which might defeat the point of pricy for some. I pay like $6 a month for my instance. But if you’re willing to pay for a more powerful instance you can run Plex directly and stream everything if you wanted. I download locally and put it on my local Plex server.
private trackers are 1000% against selling invites
Unless it’s one of the the trackers where the owners themselves are doing the selling via their seedbox sales
Users selling invites would undercut them.
Sure, there’s a huge variety among private trackers. Googling “buy private tracker invite” shows 10s of different sellers. some tracker invites can be $150 because they’re gigantic communities full of content and don’t send out invites often. Some of them are cheap enough to throw in as freebies when you buy something else.
What’s really nice about buying an invite is splurging the extra $10 and getting a built in 500-800GB of quota with it (really you’re buying the account itself). Then you don’t have to “work your way” up as long as you keep seeding whatever is popular.
This sounds really promising! Is it unsafe to sftp download from the seedbox without VPN?
Not really but I do notice that sometimes my ISP with throttle me and it stops when I use a VPN, so I just usually use a VPN (and never torrent local anymore, it’s like waiting for a snail to deliver your amazon package).