Dumb question but do you guys use VPNs for torrenting (linux ISOs ofc)? I never see a VPN instance in your dashboards. Do you somehow integrate it within qBitTorrent, system wide or at router level?

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https://hub.docker.com/r/hotio/qbittorrent

This is what I use. It has integrated Wireguard support.

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I don’t shit where I eat. Unless I’m helping to seed literal Linux ISOs any torrenting activity happens on remote seedboxes, not on my home server.

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Why isn’t “no vpn” an option? Most people are probably in that camp

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Haven’t seen it mentioned yet, but most people are caught by snatching honeypot torrents on public trackers where people can see your IP in the swarm. Private trackers tend to be infinitely safer. I’m not going to say it’s impossible for someone to infiltrate a private tracker and upload a honeypot torrent, but I haven’t heard of it. I’m over a decade on private trackers with Comcast and haven’t heard a peep from them yet.

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I run OPNsense for my router and NordVPN. I’ve programmed the router to pipe all traffic from one VLAN through the VPN then pointed the torrent client at that VLAN.

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Have a look at https://hub.docker.com/r/haugene/transmission-openvpn

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I use PIA on my devices directly (so I cab start/stop it easily) and on my Transmission Docker container for downloading Linux ISOs. I use this one - GitHub - haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn: Docker container running Transmission torrent client with WebUI over an OpenVPN tunnel

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I just have a wireguard container connected to mullvad, then just run containers traffic through that, quick and simple, no ip leaks

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I use OpenVPN on the main OPNsense firewall VM.

I find VPNs a hassle for always-on desktop use (Ticketmaster, etc.), so it’s not system wide.

I don’t have VLANs set up, so I use aliases to determine which devices send their traffic through the VPN.

I set aside 8 IP addresses (/29) for permanent always route via the VPN, and then manually assign the IPs to the devices.

In the cases where I want to switch it on/off for desktop/other devices, I’ve automated scripts to add/remove the devices to aliases.

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USENET, no VPN required, 110+mb/s speeds

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My router is running pfSense and I have it configured to direct specific traffic through a Mullvad VPN connection. All traffic from my torrenting server goes through there. Mullvad speeds are pretty good. I can regularly pull 40-50 MB/s through it. (Yes Byte, not bit)

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Everything is NZB for me except music, which is all private trackers, so I don’t bother with a VPN.

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I don’t really do torrents but I have something setup that would work.

I created a vlan on my pfsense, and also a gateway bound to an openvpn client connection.

Basically anything coming from that vlan goes out through that vpn connection instead of directly on the internet.

Allows me to exit in the US instead of in my home country whenever I need to. Just switch vlans and it’s done.

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I get everything from usenet, no need for vpns

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I do… i use the a VM on the synology, dedicate 1 of the 4 NICs to the VM and enforce always on VPN on that interface… ez pz… all torrents go through VPN but my main Synology NAS stay on my home network.

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I habe different stages oft VPN. In my OS and via Browser extention. But also one configured in my OPNsense, which i mostly don’t usw.

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I use 2 VPN connections through my router
1 for all my normal stuff and 1 for Linux iso downloading.

Haven’t had a lot of issues sometimes the VPN connection breaks up and doesn’t recover instantly but that happens very rarely

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The docker container i use has it built in https://hub.docker.com/r/haugene/transmission-openvpn/

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Mullvad pointed at via the docker settings of torrent program is how I went about it. It’s the only container using it. Mullvad app on my desktop if I ever feel the need to fire it up.