How safe and torrent using only the proxy.? I’m only using a proxy to make Torrents. I know what to do with vpn turned on and better. But only with Proxy can I get extremely fast speeds.
From what I can tell, once configured qBittorrent won’t download unless it’s connected to the proxy server, so there’s no risk of your true IP getting leaked to the swarm. That said, the data exchanged will not be encrypted, so your ISP can punish you for torrenting in general.
It’s just as safe as the VPN. The only difference between the proxy and the VPN is that the VPN encrypts your traffic, the proxy only hides your IP, hence the quicker speeds.
The only downside to using a proxy instead of a VPN for torrenting is the fact your ISP will be able to see you are using P2P traffic; this isn’t usually isn’t an issue, but some ISPs will throttle your speed if you use P2P too much.
The best solution that I found to work for qBittorrent is to have the VPN client/server on the router itself, using a third-party firmware like Openwrt or DD-WRT either are good to go and not on a personal desktop. Secondly and this is import, run the qBittorrent with the proxy setup on it own computer say a second hand or old computer, the reason been is qBittorrent is memory and resource hungry and that the program runs best for torrenting in this formula. Remember the user had the ability to do remote control of qBittorrent, very flexible and the positive side is that the ISP issue are negated by the shear fact that the proxy is now running through the VPN, do you lose speed? Yes
This depends on what your VPN is using in “Compression” and what “type or strength” of the “Encryption Cipher”, these facts do play a role in your downloads but if you wish faster speed then nothing beats a seedbox.
Following your recommendation, it is best to do with the VPN turned on in order to have no traffic difference and not be limited via ISP. The problem is being the ISP limitation. I will use the Proxy in conjunction with the VPN to make a torrent.
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If I use only proxy in QB I will do the downloads with the IP of Socks5. My IP will not be visible to the ISP. Or would it be better to use the Proxy plus VPN together to have more security with torrent?
You don’t need the proxy and the VPN as the proxy will hide your IP from any torrent swarm. You COULD use both but its not really needed.
Your ISP will not know the proxy IP you are connected to.