Learn how to make yourself anonymous online and use utorrent anonymously with a VPN or proxy service.
We show you exactly what we mean by the term “anonymous” vs not anonymous when downloading torrents. The truth is that your IP address is easily viewable by all peers sharing the same torrent as you. That’s we recommend that all Bittorrent users use an anonymous VPN or proxy service (or both would be better)
In this video, we use Private Internet Access VPN (VPNTopten.com’s editors choice 2014 best torrent VPN)
You can learn more or sign up at:
http://www.vpntopten.com/pia
We use PIA two different ways to totally anonymize utorrent traffic using first a proxy server, then a VPN (and actually use both simultaneously with two different IP addresses).
Advantages of Private Internet Access for bittorrent users:
– NO Logs. No activity tracking.
– NO Throttling
– Unlimited Bandwidth/Speeds
– Torrents Allowed
– VPN Kill Switch (Prevent accidental IP leaks)
– DNS Leak Protection (Blocks windows security leak)
– Servers in 12+ Countries
– 256-bit Military Grade AES Encryption
Learn more about PIA:
http://www.vpntopten.com/vpn/private-internet-access
Watch our PIA Video Review:
Other tools we feature:
Torguard’s Check my Torrent IP Tool:
http://www.vpntopten.com/checkip
Additional Questions:
If you have any questions, please make sure to leave them in the comments. We do our best to answer any and all relevant questions. We usually answer and approve comments once a week
I’m not able to get a username or password from the website…
How would this be different/safer from simply using a proxy? For example:
by using a free proxy in Vuze my IP in the swarm map shows a location in
the Philippines even though I’m in the US. Wouldn’t this be enough?
so I got the PIA vpn. it works clearly as my internet speeds on torrents
are significantly slower. I get 175mbps dl speed, so previously i was
downloading like a 4gb movie within 5 mins, now a 2gb movie is taking 15
minutes… is there any way to improve this? is the location I’m choosing
to run my VPN through possibly slowing it down? suggestions would be
greatly appreciated
If I check DNS leak protection, I get the warning “Please only enable DNS
Leak Protection if you really need it. DNS Leak Protection requires
modifying the Operating System’s network settings and can in rare cases
cause connectivity issues.” 1. How serious is this? 2. Can I reverse
this easily by unclicking?
This video was very helpful, I’ve had Private internet access for over a
year now and just used that without making use of the proxy. When
torrenting my vpn would sometimes shut off and come back on messing up my
speed, and allowing my isp to throttle my connection. After watching this
video, I didn’t realize that my settings in bittorrent weren’t correct
which was why my proxy was going very slow. Thank you for the help.
Where is the client control pane….you missed a step mate..
So correct me if I am wrong… the safest and also fastest method is to use
the PIA proxy over the PIA VPN? With the proxy if there is an issue and it
stops working the download via uTorrent just quits and does NOT expose your
real IP? But, if the VPN fails it will expose your real IP? Even if the
kill switch is used with the VPN it can be unreliable and even if it does
work when the VPN starts up again there is a delay in masking your IP and
your real IP can be exposed? I want to do things right the first time
around and I am a little overwhelmed. There is a lot of conflicting
information out there.
Helpful video. Question. I am using Easy-Hide-IP (VPN Client), I can get
to web sites fine but uTorrent does nothing, wont DL anything. Should
uTorrents settings be specific for it to work?
im having problems connecting to utorrent nothing downloading. i have pia i
did everything you said an also i dont see ip address on utorrent.plus peer
exchange dht and local peer discovery say inactive. did i do something
wrong
So first of all I do have to pay PIA to become a client??
That wasn’t clear in the beginning of the video :(
When you say use VPN with the Proxy but use the Kill Switch option, can you
explain that a little better? The Kill Switch box wasn’t checked in your
video demo… should it be checked? Also, one you have PIA installed, can
you switch it on and off so if you’re using say Google and looking for the
hours of the local Post Office or Beer Pub, you’ll really get local and not
local to say London? Thanks in advance, nice demo.
great tutorial, thanks, works great.
Do I need to setup the proxy in utorrent if my vpn is already connected,
i’m using PIA
I’m using frootVPN, which you can use with donations and I feel works well.
However, there is no kill switch, and I’m also using an anonymous proxy
from freeproxylists.net So you don’t need to authenticate with a username
and password as it is open. I think this set up should work alright, but I
tried using the check my torrent IP tool which doesn’t seem to work at all.
Is this because the proxy is free and they are blocking the tool from
seeing the IP? Any help would be appreciated – I’ve only ever used VPN but
have experienced dropped connections :/
I think I understand but just to clarify: proxy and VPN together is best
but if the VPN is off then the proxy alone will hide my IP. Correct?
when i check my IP adress it tells a location where i dont live
it keeps on telling me finding peers anyone can tell me how to fix this
Thanks man, it worked!
when i try to find my torrent ip it just says updating does a countdown
then restarts can check torrent ip please help
Does it matter if I use wifi or cabled?
My isp shut off my internet yesterday and threatened a bunch of shit
because i was torrenting and now thanks to you that shouldnt ever happen
again. Awesome vid man thanks so much for sharing your knowledge
I think I figured it out, I cancelled my monthly PIA VPN account and opened
a new yearly PIA VPN account and I think my old proxy username and password
code became obsolete that was in the Utorrent preference connection
settings so I went to PIA website and obtain a new username and password
for my proxy under my new account and entered it in my utorrent preferences
connection settings, now everything is working fine, I wanted to share this
so others may benefit from my situation.
would be it be safe to use credit card, for the PIA subscription?
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Not wishing to put a dampener on things but how do I know that PIA (private
internet access) isn’t just a front for something set up by those clever
boys working for the likes of Sony/EMI/MGM etc? I don’t want to find
myself playing straight into their hands.