FYI: PIA VPN performance improvement (dramatic)
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 4:57 am
I switched Private Internet Access (PIA) from OpenVPN(SOCKS5) to WireGuard(no proxy) yesterday. qBittorrent performance went from slow and unreliable to 10x+ faster and reliable.
Since WireGuard https://www.wireguard.com/ is designed for Data Security with little regard to privacy, I was concerned.
At the bottom of https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/p ... n-protocol it says
I did ask PIA Support for an HTTP proxy for qBittorrent to use when PIA is not enabled, so qBittorrent will always use VPN, enabled or not. I haven't heard back yet. Using "split path" setup in PIA-WireGuard, bBittorrent can't be started unless VPN is enabled.
After suffering through months of abysmal qBittorrent(SOCKS5) performance, I thought other qBittorrent users might want to know there is now a better way which works with PIA VPN - qBittorrent.
Since WireGuard https://www.wireguard.com/ is designed for Data Security with little regard to privacy, I was concerned.
At the bottom of https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/p ... n-protocol it says
Through SOCKS5 there was a persistent issue with qBittorrent not finding trackers. This issue appears to be gone using PIA-WireGuard and no proxy. DO NOT TRY TO USE SOCKS5 WITH WireGuard (I don't think PIA will let you do this anyway, but trying to do this is a square-peg/round-hole bad idea). OpenVPN+SOCK5 is a totally different protocol stack (separate incompatible software) from WireGuard, don't try to mix them.Private Internet Access has augmented WireGuard with no logging privacy protections on your VPN servers so PIA WireGuard users can rest assured that no client-server connections are logged and that their privacy is protected...
I did ask PIA Support for an HTTP proxy for qBittorrent to use when PIA is not enabled, so qBittorrent will always use VPN, enabled or not. I haven't heard back yet. Using "split path" setup in PIA-WireGuard, bBittorrent can't be started unless VPN is enabled.
After suffering through months of abysmal qBittorrent(SOCKS5) performance, I thought other qBittorrent users might want to know there is now a better way which works with PIA VPN - qBittorrent.