Also asked them if torrenting legal stuff is allowed and they said no.
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
My ISP routinely has problems on IPv4. Even while it’s fully operational with very low ping, IPv4 performance is poor compared to IPv6. Add in NAT, port forwarding and all the mess IPv4 brings into the picture I can’t believe people are still advocating for disabling IPv6.
Mullvad doesn’t allow portforwarding anymore iirc
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 just noticed I have ipv6 disabled in Mullvad. It has caused me no issues. Should I enable it?
If you want to, then sure. For torrenting, it’s not necessary, but may be helpful. I do occasionally see ipv6 peers.
I only heard good things about mullvad vpn.
I heard they stopped port forwarding though.
Express VPN
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.
There are plenty of VPN that leak data.
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
Your comment assumes the ISP cares about false positives.
You are assuming the client needs to care about his ISPs claims unless they actually exist, and aren’t false positives.
So you think OP is lying?
OP’s ISP is lying or OP misconfigured his client.
My guess would be that there is a problem with his configuration, and he is leaking traffic that reveals he is using torrents.
You also need to force your torrent client to use the VPN network adaptor. You can do this in qBitorrent advanced settings
Where do I find this setting on Deluge?
Using the ltConfig plugin, there is a force_proxy option
Thanks! Found the plugin but for some reason Deluge doesn’t have access to any of my folders so I can’t install it
What OS are you running?
MacOS
Check ipleak.net to see if there’s identifiable info coming through. Use their torrent check as well.
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.
If you’re on qbit, did you bind your vpn to qbit?
Also your vpn might just be bad, what do you use?
Do you mind explaining or pointing to resource about binding to qbit? I use qbit and pia.
Start the VPN and connect to a location. Open qBittorrent. Go to Preferences, and then Advanced tab. Change Network interface to the VPN (usually its name, like “Mullvad”). Restart qBittorrent.
Basically when you bind it, if your vpn ever happens to turn off or leak etc its gonna stop the download/upload
Awesome, thank you.
Unless something has changed since I used it, you’ll need to set PIA to wireguard only, and the adapter shows up as wg-pia. (or similar)
I did not but it was a system wide VPN.
You should always bind it directly in qb to prevent it from accidentally leaking
Start the VPN and connect to a location. Open qBittorrent. Go to Preferences, and then Advanced tab. Change Network interface to the VPN (usually its name, like “Mullvad”). Restart qBittorrent.
Basically when you bind it, if your vpn ever happens to turn off etc its gonna stop the download/upload
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
So you’re effectively blocked from installing some Linux distros? What the fuck
I don’t know why torrenting your linux ISO’s wouldn’t be legal. I also remembered torrenting a game a developer no longer sells anymore, and me using a free tier VPN didn’t even hide my IP. Yeah I was the idiot back then.
What, they don’t allow torrenting legal stuff? So you can’t download Windows 11 as a torrent from Microsoft? Sounds like a sassy ISP.
Review your VPN config, it’s leaking some traffic. Enable it system wide with a kill switch.
Last I tried was with mullvad and it had a system wide Killswitch.
Do you get specific letters about files you have downloaded, or generic letters about you using torrent?
If the first, something is wrong with your setup. Mullvad should be fine.
If the latter, it might be only your DNS setup is leaking and your isp sees the domains you are connecting to.
Maybe try turning off IPv6 if applicable.
probably your real non VPN IP leaked
I torrent on a seedbox and then download to my local machine with rsync. ISP shouldn’t care about an ssh connection.
Do you use a seed box service or how does it work?
I use ultra seedbox, but there are plenty of other companies you can buy from
Thanks!
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.
This is the way!
Seedbox.
Make sure your torrent client is using your VPN adapter
Make sure you have killswitch on your vpn on
