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Shutdown uTorrent when VPN is active


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Hello,

 

I know this is an inversion of the usual request, to only run uTorrent when your private VPN is active, but the title is not a mistake.  I regularly use my school's VPN to access data from our on campus intranet via Cisco AnyClient.  I recently recieved a cease and desist letter denying me access to the VPN until my torrent client was deleted and all of my downloads were deleted as well.  Usually this wouldn't bother me much, but I need access to this VPN.  So much so to where I would choose to delete uTorrent and discontinue seeding over risking a loss of access to the VPN.  I have an overall ratio of around 10 from the last 5 years, and enjoy seeding many niche files with an emphasis on documentaries and would like to continue providing this service to the community.

 

As a result, I would like a way to make sure that uTorrent is automatically shutdown any time I connect to my school's VPN.  Is there a way to do this?

 

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How do you connect to the net, your school's VPN? If so, they will notice the band width your taking up and they will know what you are doing. I don't use a VPN yet, but from what I've been reading, most people using a VPN is to hide thier IP address so thier Internet Provider won't send them a "cease and desist" or actually cancel thier internet access.

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How do you connect to the net, your school's VPN? If so, they will notice the band width your taking up and they will know what you are doing. I don't use a VPN yet, but from what I've been reading, most people using a VPN is to hide thier IP address so thier Internet Provider won't send them a "cease and desist" or actually cancel thier internet access.

I connect to the net via my home ISP, I connect to the school's VPN so that I have the credentials to use their web services that you can usually only access from on campus.

 

You are correct regarding why most people use a VPN on this forum; they use a VPN to prevent malicious parties from seeing what they're uploading/downloading.  It appears as if the VPN is downloading it, not you.

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Hello,

 

I know this is an inversion of the usual request, to only run uTorrent when your private VPN is active, but the title is not a mistake.  I regularly use my school's VPN to access data from our on campus intranet via Cisco AnyClient.  I recently recieved a cease and desist letter denying me access to the VPN until my torrent client was deleted and all of my downloads were deleted as well.  Usually this wouldn't bother me much, but I need access to this VPN.  So much so to where I would choose to delete uTorrent and discontinue seeding over risking a loss of access to the VPN.  I have an overall ratio of around 10 from the last 5 years, and enjoy seeding many niche files with an emphasis on documentaries and would like to continue providing this service to the community.

 

As a result, I would like a way to make sure that uTorrent is automatically shutdown any time I connect to my school's VPN.  Is there a way to do this?

 

Thanks

This means your VPN provider is throughly checking all VPN activities on their VPN and detected your using your VPN login to download torrents. That's the basics of it. And since they own and run the VPN you are obligiated to follow their policies-nothing we can do to help you here. This is between you and your VPN provider and their usage policies. This is beyond utorrent help as this point in time and you need to talk to your VPN provider. Shutting down utorrent won't stop your Cease and Decease letters your still going through their VPN regardless.

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I connect to the net via my home ISP, I connect to the school's VPN so that I have the credentials to use their web services that you can usually only access from on campus.

 

You are correct regarding why most people use a VPN on this forum; they use a VPN to prevent malicious parties from seeing what they're uploading/downloading.  It appears as if the VPN is downloading it, not you.

This is something you need to talk to your VPN provider since no one on here has any network setup they can help you with. If you can't turn off your VPN while using your ISP to connect to your School account this means your VPN is on by default the gateway and your using your ISP connected through your VPN to your School Gateway. So either way unless you can disable your VPN that is your default internet access and any activity you do will go through the VPN and they will monitor it.

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This means your VPN provider is throughly checking all VPN activities on their VPN and detected your using your VPN login to download torrents. That's the basics of it. And since they own and run the VPN you are obligiated to follow their policies-nothing we can do to help you here. This is between you and your VPN provider and their usage policies. This is beyond utorrent help as this point in time and you need to talk to your VPN provider. Shutting down utorrent won't stop your Cease and Decease letters your still going through their VPN regardless.

That is correct, the VPN monitors all traffic and detected that I had uTorrent running

 

 

This is something you need to talk to your VPN provider since no one on here has any network setup they can help you with. If you can't turn off your VPN while using your ISP to connect to your School account this means your VPN is on by default the gateway and your using your ISP connected through your VPN to your School Gateway. So either way unless you can disable your VPN that is your default internet access and any activity you do will go through the VPN and they will monitor it.

I can manually enable or disable my VPN whenever I feel like it.  My internet access is independent of whether or not I am connected to the VPN.  I can manually make sure that uTorrent is only open when the VPN is disconnected, and vice versa, that uTorrent is always closed when the VPN is connected.

 

The fact I got caught running uTorrent on the VPN before was a mistake; usually I would never have both connected at the same time.  What I am interested in is a way to safeguard and prevent this from happening again.  Maybe a third party app that prevents both from running at the same time?  Maybe a convenient setting in uTorrent? 

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That is correct, the VPN monitors all traffic and detected that I had uTorrent running

 

 

I can manually enable or disable my VPN whenever I feel like it.  My internet access is independent of whether or not I am connected to the VPN.  I can manually make sure that uTorrent is only open when the VPN is disconnected, and vice versa, that uTorrent is always closed when the VPN is connected.

 

The fact I got caught running uTorrent on the VPN before was a mistake; usually I would never have both connected at the same time.  What I am interested in is a way to safeguard and prevent this from happening again.  Maybe a third party app that prevents both from running at the same time?  Maybe a convenient setting in uTorrent? 

Won't happen as long as VPN is installed and is your default Gatway. Your VPN should have a option to disable and close the VPN but if it doesn't have that feature no third party will be able to do that for you. If this is the School Laptop then you should stop doing personal computing on it and have another computer for personal use only. That is your only real way to prevent VPN monitoring by having your own laptop to use for utorrent itself. Also since your denied access to VPN now requires you go and talk to your School administrator to fix your problem and more or less get lectured and told what your actions has done and to what extend you will be required to stop and fix what your doing to regain your access to the school VPN. This last part no one on here can help you with and you yourself must initiate this with your School Administration to restore your previledges to use their VPN again. This is why I never use work laptop computer for Personnal uses-they own it so they can monitor it and all activities you do on it they can see it.

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