I’ve been having poor results torrenting over Keepsolid’s VPN Unlimited service, so I set up a test. I found a well seeded torrent of a linux distribution, began torrenting, it quickly maxed out my internet connection within 20 seconds. Connected to VPN Unlimited in Romania, the Canada server wouldn’t connect for some reason. Restarted the same torrent, and maxed out at 1mbps after 15 minutes.
I recall back when Keepsolid’s VPN service was great for torrenting, their torrent servers seemed permanently overloaded, showing yellow or red in the server list. This made them only really usable for torrenting, since any other activities suffered heavy packet loss. Now that they’re borderline unusable for torrenting, they’re permanently green in the server list and all other activities are snappy without any packet loss. Makes me think other customers have quit using them due to poor torrent performance.
I’ve been trying to get qbittorrent 4.3.9 to work with vpnunlimited for the better part of a day. It can’t seem to pull metadata for torrents unless I turn the VPN connection off. I can then download fine but I don’t want to have to pause ongoing torrents whenever I want to add a new torrent. Anyway around this you’ve found? The tracker I’ve been having issues with is rarbg if that makes a difference.