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The only downside is it can make web browsing and shopping a bit of a pain. But that’s my own fault for not taking 10 minutes to figure out how to set up split tunneling or just hosting qBittorrent on my media server…
Advice: Look up Gluetun and dockerize your torrent/vpn setup. Makes things real simple (including moving where it is hosted, should you choose to)
Appreciate the advice!
I'm running Unraid, but still figuring out the nuts and bolts of dockers so this sounds like a handy tool.
Well you're in fucking luck then buckaroo, because a fellow humansperson that goes by the nickname binhex has you all wrapped up and ready to fedex. Now strap yourself in and point your Unraid apps to a little gem I like to call binhex-qbittorrentvpn, mostly because that's also what they call it.
It's gonna give you a qBittorrent docker that's already integrated with OpenVPN and Wireguard. All you gotta do is give it the proper info for your VPN, and away you go!
Well butter my toast and call me Sandy, that sounds almost too good to be true!
BUT WAIT, there's more! binhex also packages quite a few other popular services, including others that are wrapped up nicely in a VPN. Including, but not limited to, SABnzbd for those of us who use Usenet! There's also the full suite of Servarr apps, for all your sailing needs on the High Seas! Just give "binhex" a quick search on the Unraid community apps app, and enjoy!
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*offer not available on all Lunar colonies. May or may not cause nonstop binging of dramas you're too embarrassed to tell your friends you watch.
Does anyone know why this happens? Do people configure limits based on location in their torrent clients?
It's probably torrent clients doing a ping test of peers to check latency. Ops VPN server replies to the ping so they look close, even though they're not.
I can't imagine a client that would ship an ip2geo db to bother trying to look up locations. Just doesn't make any sense.
can't imagine a client that would ship an ip2geo db
qBittorrent shows country flags next to the peer IPs, so they likely do have some ip2geo db.
if that's the case, that feature seems to work rather poorly
Presumably it's automatically set by the torrent client. Maybe it's an IP thing. Has Op Tried changing between servers of the same country?
I certainly haven't done any scientific testing, but I generally don't see the same thing happen when changing servers within the US.
Someone else commented it being a ping thing, where the exit server responds. I think I agree with that. Whats the user agent for these peers?
Sorry, not sure if this is exactly what you're asking, but scanning through the peers I'm connected to now it's around 75% qBittorrent.
Do you have a VPN client with port forwarding and have you configured the port?
I'm using Proton's VPN client, which does have port forwarding, but it's not currently enabled. Could this be causing me issues?
Sounds like if I enable port forwarding, I just need to ensure qBittorrent's "listening port" is set to whatever active port the VPN client is using.
Yes, if you're not using port forwarding with VPN you will get very poor speeds.
Well dammit, that was it. THANK YOU!
I feel pretty stupid for overlooking something so simple, but since qBittorrent never indicated any kind of connection error, I didn't even think to dig into such things.
That's awesome! Glad I could be of assistance.
It's all tribal knowledge, not like they're are classes :)
I've been torrenting with VPNs for years and never understood how they work together. I just really wish i didn't have to do this, i already struggle enough without the added complexity