I’ve been a pirate for several years, but I just know the bare minimum. I just taught myself. A couple years ago, I got a letter from my isp warning me. I researched and believed Surfshark to be a good vpn. I was looking at some things on here and saw posts from a couple years ago talking about Surfshark not being good. Something about DNS. Are they still bad? What can I do to protect myself?
surfshark might suspended you account if they got any copyright claim
avoid surfshark if you want to torrenting
It’s rubbish for p2p yes, since it lacks port-forwarding. However, it’s one of the favorite VPNs of reviewers (referrals $$$) so it gets undeserved advertising. Never trust a review that comes with a coupon code.
Surfshark often suspends accounts for automated reasons.
I can recommend , windscribe , Mullvad , Proton , ivpn and air vpn.
there are very few VPN’s that are trust worthy and you should research about this so you know what to look for.
My personal list of recommendations are AirVPN, Private Internet Access (PIA) and Proton.
AirVPN is cheap and works well, I had a few issues with the port but it was my ISP the problem.
PIA, I saw it and got a few recommendations but never used it.
Proton, used it and its good on Windows but that is about it. Its extremely expensive in comparison and unless you use all the other things is not really worth it.
bro ,i use qbittorrent portable, and their is no issue after changing listening port ,it works
yes ,hide.me works with kill switch+ split tunneling+ wiregaurd
however their is another setting " stealthgaurd “” which is able to block internet even if app closed ( i test ,it works ) ,but split tunneling doest work with stealthgaurd
however kill switch is not full proof , binding client to vpn interface is
suggest you to bind transmission to your vpn interface
im not a technical guy ,but when i use bolted connection ,AR straight forward shows error
and also disadvantage is that you can access wiregaurd only with official app
i used (sucessfully) surfshark for ~4 years. I tested it for DNS leaks everytime before use. it often leaks DNS or ipv6, so if you’re not “techsavy” go another route. i tried Airvpn and looks way more robust security wise, but didnt have amazing speeds for me. i will probably try PIA next
I can’t wait, until your really brought to justice for your crimes. Just a matter of time before you get caught.
sounds like result of software glitch or bad adjustments
i dont understand half of what you said
i used many vpn providers
like mullvad,proton,hide.me
mullvad - if you want heavily privacy based vpn ( i know this is not the best method , but i trust mullvad ,so i use google play credit at 10% discount purchased at amazon )
and if you want torrenting ,i find hide.me best, because it supports dynamic port forwarding ,it means you dont have to enter port in torrent client in order to use port forwarding
protonvpn is balanced
i heard that pia is also good at torrenting
sorry ,that reply was for another user
All of those support binding the torrent to the vpn?
Your feedback is very interesting, I myself test the different VPNs that allow p2p traffic.
I used to use Mullvad for their efforts on confidentiality, until last year when they literally stopped the port forwarding function, since then I’ve tested several and I’m currently with Proton and I haven’t yet tested hide.me.
I wonder if hide.me offers better speeds than Proton’s servers?
Also, with Proton on Windows it is impossible to activate what hide.me calls Stealth Guard with the Split Tunneling function on a p2p server (according to the support it is a driver bug), is it the same situation with hide.me?
I’ve just checked the price and it seems to be the same monthly price for hide.me and Proton.
binding torrent client is app feature , von do what they made for - encryption the connection
for binding torrent client
i recommend qbittorrent ,its open source and super easy to bind to vpn interface
yes ,too bad , mullvad stopped port forwarding
and when it comes to speed
both able to saturated my 100 mbps fibre connection
but proton often reconnect once in 10-15 hours ( asia servers)
and what i like about hide.me is that it allows dynamic port forwarding ,so i dont have to put listening port in torrent client everytime i connect
i have seen many people confirming that ,when it comes to gigabit connection ,mullvad beats all
and on windows hide me and proton split tunneling works in qbittorrent portable version
but i do face problem when i use bolted connection in hide.me , because with that,alpharatio tracker doest work ( i dont know why )
but proton often reconnect once in 10-15 hours ( asia servers)
I almost exclusively use servers on the European continent and in over 3 months I’ve only had one server connection cut for maintenance and the admin on the Proton side had switched the connections to a server next door in the same country, so I just had to change the port in my Transmission.
However, I don’t know if when I change the port in Transmission I have to restart it so that the new number is taken into account or if the change is taken into account directly?
and what i like about hide.me is that it allows dynamic port forwarding ,so i dont have to put listening port in torrent client everytime i connect
This is a real selling point, as all ports are automatically opened.
and on windows hide me and proton split tunneling works in qbittorrent portable version
My basic question about split tunneling is really whether split tunneling works at the same time as kill switch using hide.me’s WireGuard protocol, because with ProtonVPN the two options cannot be activated at the same time.
but i do face problem when i use bolted connection in hide.me , because with that,alpharatio tracker doest work ( i dont know why )
According to the documentation in the hide.me blog post, hide.me’s bolted connection function is designed for TCP-accelerated VPN connections over 10Mb. The first thing you need to know is that trackers like AR (since you’re quoting it directly) is a private tracker, so you’ll inevitably have faster throughput using UDP because there will be far fewer checks between the host (i.e. you) and the server (the VPN server, then AR’s server).
Admittedly, TCP connections can be accelerated by various means (Proton have very recently added a new home-made protocol that does roughly the same thing), but the connection negotiations and fundamental checks of the basic protocol remain unchanged, which explains why you’re a bad bitrate with AR just as you might be a bad bitrate with another private tracker.
With public trackers, you might be able to get a better throughput, but it’s not even certain.