Torrenting Via VPN

[Simbiote]

Hi,

 

First of all I am not asking for support for the UTorrent Client.

 

I wish to discuss with fellow users the use of a VPN in relation to Torrent Seeding.

I do not wish to cloud the discussion with talk about proxies, unless adding a proxy to the VPN connection is a viable solution.

 

I have read this and many other forums about the use of VPN's and see varied responses - mainly negative. Like this: http://forum.utorrent.com/topic/81389-no-incoming-connections/

and this: http://forum.utorrent.com/topic/83862-yellow-triangle-with-no-incoming-connections-and-the-torrent-crash/?hl=guard

 

I am not 100% sure I understand how the seeding process works, and the relationship with the DHT Nodes.. 

 

I am not a leech I have seeded over a TB of Torrents over many years, and have a positive ratio, but wish to limit my exposure presently.

 

I have started running a VPN, which works fine for downloading and as all my Torrent traffic travels via the VPN (I have configured my firewall to only allow UTorrent to access the VPN network) I have removed the port forwarding from my router, as that IP address is no longer involved.

 

But I am concerned about my lack of seeding, when I start UTorrent, the connection indicator starts blank, goes to the orange triangle/ exclamation mark, then within 30 mins, goes to the green tick for a bit as the various torrents I am seeding show a small amount of activity for a few minutes.

 

Then it seems to "degrade" back to the orange triangle/ exclamation mark, then occasionally ramps back up to the green tick. But the upload speed is very slow (no more than 10 kB/s). Could this traffic simply be seeding broadcasting from my end, rather than traffic to a fellow torrentor?

 

I have read a bit of cryptic information about DHT Nodes, and at present the indicator is showing 520 nodes, so that looks positive?

 

Is there anyone that can point me to a forum to discuss this further, or provide a bit of assistance explaining from experience if I can seed torrents via a VPN, and how it can be achieved. Once I understand the requirements, It may be possible to achieve this using my current, or another VPN provider.

 

Conversely if this is indeed 100% impossible, perhaps (meaning no offence) the Admins could put a sticky in this and the troubleshooting forum stating that (along with the reasons).

 

I realise this is not a UTorrent issue, but as it relates to the UTorrent client, as really a minimum connectivity requirement, I think the discussion is valid and warranted.

 

 

thanks

S

 

 

[Simbiote]

Ok,

 

Found the answer i was looking for.

 

Any VPN will work fine for downloading torrents.

 

A VPN will work fine for SEEDING torrents as long as that VPN offers Port forwarding.

 

BT Guard from what I can see does not.

Air VPN https://airvpn.org/ does.

 

simple.

S

[Simbiote]

Admins - Can you append "Solved" to this subject line please?

[skeeterdew]

I'm here looking for answers as I have the same problem as you do and I use uTorrent. So I don't think the port-forwarding is the problem.