bilbo68 Posted February 1, 2016 Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Can this be done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 1, 2016 Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 With third party utilities, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilbo68 Posted February 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Can you expand on how? I run PIA vpn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 1, 2016 Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 People have written utilities that close torrent clients when the vpn is detected as disconnected. uTorrent does NOT have this functionality built in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Down Under Posted February 6, 2016 Report Share Posted February 6, 2016 Look for VPN Watcher. Note that uTorrent is terminated by the watcher when the VPN becomes disconnected. When the VPN reconnects, it restarts uTorrent. The drawback being that uTorrent will be forced to recheck all you active torrents. That could be time consuming if you have numerous large torrents. If your VPN connection is flaky, the result could be that uTorrent spends more time rechecking than torrenting. If you're not married to your VPN provider, there are some (AirVPN for example) that can be set to force all network activity through the VPN. When the VPN disconnects, it's as if your network were disconnected. When the VPN reconnects, you're back in business without need to recheck. Just some ideas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magao Posted February 13, 2016 Report Share Posted February 13, 2016 An alternative is not to stop uTorrent, but to block the traffic. Assuming you're on Windows, and your torrent machine is always connected to your local network (i.e. it's not a notebook that's sometimes connected to public networks), the simplest method is to set up firewall rules to block uTorrent from having any network access unless the VPN is active. Configure the local network connection as a private network, and have all new networks encountered automatically considered public (that means any new VPN connection would be public). There was a simple way to do this with Windows 7, not sure about later versions. Create firewall rules to block uTorrent from sending any traffic via private networks, and allow it to send traffic via public networks. If you use the web UI then you will need to add an exception for the web UI port on the private network. Once this is done if the VPN goes down uTorrent won't be able to send or receive any traffic at all (you'll see active torrents turn red). Another option is to set up a second machine just for the VPN which forwards all traffic to the VPN (this is a good use for an old netbook). Then configure the torrent machine to use the VPN machine as its gateway. This only works if all programs on the torrent machine need their traffic to go via the VPN (or the other programs can be configured to send via your router). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxwell01 Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 PIA has its own built in Kill-Switch for Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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