[GUIDE] New to torrenting? Quick-start here

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You only need to follow this if the rules are strict in your country. You had been burned once or you’ll search online to find out.

What is torrenting?

It’s downloading what others share and sharing what you’ve downloaded. BitTorrent is a communications protocol and there’re apps making use of it. You can find better explanations online

How to get online in a secure way

  1. Choose a VPN with port-forwarding for best performance (otherwise just keep your VPN):
  2. Install qBittorrent as your new torrent client (Tixati, BiglyBT are for advanced users)
  3. In client settings, lock it to only use the VPN connection. This will prevent leaks and eliminate unwanted notices

Do you live in a troll-infested country and think “nah it’ll be fine”? Just GET A VPN: An economic calculation

The End.

What server/country to connect to?

If there’re “p2p-optimized” servers then use them. Otherwise only if you can tolerate the ping: Netherlands NL, Switzerland CH, Sweden SE. Anything that’s not your country nor the home country of Digital Millenium Control Act is alright.

If you have any questions, I bet they’ve already been answered (guides and explanations).

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You see I’m tired of answering the same questions. Yall are big boys and I believe in you!

he who seeks finds [Matthew 7:8]

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Thank you. I’m not a huge torrent guy, so I don’t really want to put too much effort into learning all of this stuff. But I also don’t want to get hassled by my ISP.

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Tried the VPN locking but the test torrent just will not download

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What is torrenting exactly?

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But has anybody on this sub ever asked you which VPN is best?!? Aha! Checkmate

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No for Stremio. Looks like you’d need to either convince individual addon developers to do that or get Stremio authors interested so they start pushing for it with a global setting. Until then it’ll behave like a regular app. That means you can only lock it down on Android with “Always-on VPN” setting.

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It’s downloading what others share and sharing what you’ve downloaded. BitTorrent is a communications protocol and there’re apps making use of it.

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NordVPN

(Jk, don’t actually use NordVPN)