Because some idiot isps decided that torrenting is considered serving media/files to others and is thus running a server and thus require you to use Business plans that cost 5x as much.
Dunno if anyone mentioned it, but if I had to guess, you have a DNS leak. Basically your DNS requests are going through your ISP instead of the VPN, resulting in them knowing where you’re going online anyway. Be sure to check for those DNS leaks and setup a custom one if your VPN doesn’t offer one. Don’t forget, DNS traffic over port 53 is also unencrypted, so unless you force those through the VPN, they could still know where you’re going.
If you are on VPN they cannot know shit. Only that you use a VPN… So either they are detecting the VPN and lying about what they know or you fucked up setting the VPN and the torrentina doesn’t go through the VPN.
That could indicate a lot of things. It would be very difficult to distinguish a torrent from something like cloud folder sync. And that would still be a statistical guess. No ISP is going to go after customers because their VPN traffic is potentially torrent traffic.
Besides, even if they could detect that torrenting is taking place, they will not know what data is being transferred from and to where. It’s a meme, but torrents are actually sometimes used for non-copyright infringing data.
My gf got several letters and I started using a VPN. Easy peasy. No problems.
Now I’ve moved to seedboxes (seedhost.eu) and private trackers. First I buy an invite to a private tracker (if you spend like $20 you can get an invite to one of the less prestigious ones and like 500gb of quota). This is kind of a process since private trackers are 1000% against selling invites so it’s kind of a “marketplace” forum type deal. Not a 1 min paypal transaction. Took me a couple days to get my first invite.
Then use that tracker on the seedbox which has a few tb disc. Then I sftp in (I have used the app Forklift for many years and highly recommend if you’re on a Mac, it’s amazing) and transfer down.
I get like 7 MB/s through VPN which is alright for me and even without a VPN, it’s just random traffic coming from a server. You aren’t torrenting from your machine so there’s no issue.
To get quota on the trackers, you can either buy an invite that includes some quota or build it up yourself. The seedboxes I use have like 100 MB/s upload speed so you’d just download some super popular (freeleach if possible) torrents and then seed for a while. If your invite comes with some quota, likely you’ll have more quota than you know what to do with. I bought an invite with a 100gb quota and now I have like 4tb of quota.
The downside is cost which might defeat the point of pricy for some. I pay like $6 a month for my instance. But if you’re willing to pay for a more powerful instance you can run Plex directly and stream everything if you wanted. I download locally and put it on my local Plex server.
Sure, there’s a huge variety among private trackers. Googling “buy private tracker invite” shows 10s of different sellers. some tracker invites can be $150 because they’re gigantic communities full of content and don’t send out invites often. Some of them are cheap enough to throw in as freebies when you buy something else.
What’s really nice about buying an invite is splurging the extra $10 and getting a built in 500-800GB of quota with it (really you’re buying the account itself). Then you don’t have to “work your way” up as long as you keep seeding whatever is popular.
I use Syncthing with my Seedbox and use a VPN on my Debian VM running syncthing, then share the folder im syncing over smb on my local network. (I Use FeralHosting) This is just one of many ways to do it.
SFTP is fine but is like having a helmet on while racing but not using a seat belt.
Not really but I do notice that sometimes my ISP with throttle me and it stops when I use a VPN, so I just usually use a VPN (and never torrent local anymore, it’s like waiting for a snail to deliver your amazon package).
You basically have a remote server, usually a cloud or bare metal, where you do all your torrenting. It’s fairly easy, as there are plenty of clients with web UI like Transmission that can be setup super easily via Docker. Make sure to protect it somehow though. Or use a torrent CLI tool and do everything via SSH.
your VPN provider, sucks, and is leaking, so they can see all your traffic, and sue you for it, after they cancel your service. get a better VPN provider like NordVPN, or another major, and STOP using whatever the hell VPN you’re using now, it might already be too late
Damn, you must be living in a first world country. Anyway some VPNs have options to switch the protocol to a more undetectable one. Windscribe has a stealth mode where the traffic would look like normal https traffic over port 443. But looking at the way it is, your ISP might notice you have transferred x amount of data to a VPN server and still send those notices
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Review your VPN config, it’s leaking some traffic. Enable it system wide with a kill switch.
Last I tried was with mullvad and it had a system wide Killswitch.
Maybe try turning off IPv6 if applicable.
Do you get specific letters about files you have downloaded, or generic letters about you using torrent?
If the first, something is wrong with your setup. Mullvad should be fine.
If the latter, it might be only your DNS setup is leaking and your isp sees the domains you are connecting to.
https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-leaks/
Make sure you have killswitch on your vpn on
Cheeky fuckers telling you no bittorrent at all is allowed. They’re banning protocols now…
Because some idiot isps decided that torrenting is considered serving media/files to others and is thus running a server and thus require you to use Business plans that cost 5x as much.
So you’re effectively blocked from installing some Linux distros? What the fuck
Dunno if anyone mentioned it, but if I had to guess, you have a DNS leak. Basically your DNS requests are going through your ISP instead of the VPN, resulting in them knowing where you’re going online anyway. Be sure to check for those DNS leaks and setup a custom one if your VPN doesn’t offer one. Don’t forget, DNS traffic over port 53 is also unencrypted, so unless you force those through the VPN, they could still know where you’re going.
I had a similar problem where my ipv4 traffic went through the VPN, but for ipv6 it was straight to clearnet
Get real-debrid
where are you?
Not your address, because I’m totally not like the FBI or anything!
If you are on VPN they cannot know shit. Only that you use a VPN… So either they are detecting the VPN and lying about what they know or you fucked up setting the VPN and the torrentina doesn’t go through the VPN.
There are plenty of VPN that leak data.
They’ll still see upload/download volumes, speeds and patterns. Just not destinations. That alone could indicate torrent.
That could indicate a lot of things. It would be very difficult to distinguish a torrent from something like cloud folder sync. And that would still be a statistical guess. No ISP is going to go after customers because their VPN traffic is potentially torrent traffic.
Besides, even if they could detect that torrenting is taking place, they will not know what data is being transferred from and to where. It’s a meme, but torrents are actually sometimes used for non-copyright infringing data.
I was providing Linux distros and Machine Learning datasets some time ago, because official servers where slow. I’m the meme I guess
So you think OP is lying?
OP’s ISP is lying or OP misconfigured his client.
My guess would be that there is a problem with his configuration, and he is leaking traffic that reveals he is using torrents.
Your comment assumes the ISP cares about false positives.
You are assuming the client needs to care about his ISPs claims unless they actually exist, and aren’t false positives.
My gf got several letters and I started using a VPN. Easy peasy. No problems.
Now I’ve moved to seedboxes (seedhost.eu) and private trackers. First I buy an invite to a private tracker (if you spend like $20 you can get an invite to one of the less prestigious ones and like 500gb of quota). This is kind of a process since private trackers are 1000% against selling invites so it’s kind of a “marketplace” forum type deal. Not a 1 min paypal transaction. Took me a couple days to get my first invite.
Then use that tracker on the seedbox which has a few tb disc. Then I sftp in (I have used the app Forklift for many years and highly recommend if you’re on a Mac, it’s amazing) and transfer down.
I get like 7 MB/s through VPN which is alright for me and even without a VPN, it’s just random traffic coming from a server. You aren’t torrenting from your machine so there’s no issue.
To get quota on the trackers, you can either buy an invite that includes some quota or build it up yourself. The seedboxes I use have like 100 MB/s upload speed so you’d just download some super popular (freeleach if possible) torrents and then seed for a while. If your invite comes with some quota, likely you’ll have more quota than you know what to do with. I bought an invite with a 100gb quota and now I have like 4tb of quota.
The downside is cost which might defeat the point of pricy for some. I pay like $6 a month for my instance. But if you’re willing to pay for a more powerful instance you can run Plex directly and stream everything if you wanted. I download locally and put it on my local Plex server.
Unless it’s one of the the trackers where the owners themselves are doing the selling via their seedbox sales
Users selling invites would undercut them.
Sure, there’s a huge variety among private trackers. Googling “buy private tracker invite” shows 10s of different sellers. some tracker invites can be $150 because they’re gigantic communities full of content and don’t send out invites often. Some of them are cheap enough to throw in as freebies when you buy something else.
What’s really nice about buying an invite is splurging the extra $10 and getting a built in 500-800GB of quota with it (really you’re buying the account itself). Then you don’t have to “work your way” up as long as you keep seeding whatever is popular.
This sounds really promising! Is it unsafe to sftp download from the seedbox without VPN?
I use Syncthing with my Seedbox and use a VPN on my Debian VM running syncthing, then share the folder im syncing over smb on my local network. (I Use FeralHosting) This is just one of many ways to do it.
SFTP is fine but is like having a helmet on while racing but not using a seat belt.
Not really but I do notice that sometimes my ISP with throttle me and it stops when I use a VPN, so I just usually use a VPN (and never torrent local anymore, it’s like waiting for a snail to deliver your amazon package).
Check ipleak.net to see if there’s identifiable info coming through. Use their torrent check as well.
I torrent on a seedbox and then download to my local machine with rsync. ISP shouldn’t care about an ssh connection.
This is the way!
Do you use a seed box service or how does it work?
You basically have a remote server, usually a cloud or bare metal, where you do all your torrenting. It’s fairly easy, as there are plenty of clients with web UI like Transmission that can be setup super easily via Docker. Make sure to protect it somehow though. Or use a torrent CLI tool and do everything via SSH.
I use ultra seedbox, but there are plenty of other companies you can buy from
Thanks!
your VPN provider, sucks, and is leaking, so they can see all your traffic, and sue you for it, after they cancel your service. get a better VPN provider like NordVPN, or another major, and STOP using whatever the hell VPN you’re using now, it might already be too late
probably your real non VPN IP leaked
Depending on what you’re downloading (media - TV, movies, music) usenet could be the better approach.
If you are acquiring that type of content, look into the *arr services and setup guides.
Damn, you must be living in a first world country. Anyway some VPNs have options to switch the protocol to a more undetectable one. Windscribe has a stealth mode where the traffic would look like normal https traffic over port 443. But looking at the way it is, your ISP might notice you have transferred x amount of data to a VPN server and still send those notices