Is Proton VPN safe for 1337x?

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Hi, I’m new on this subreddit :slight_smile:

I just got an email from my ISP while I was using Surfshark and I want to switch for something that will hide me from those copyright companies.

Is Proton VPN any good ? and is there any alternatives?

I’m on Fedora Linux ^^

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The only issue with Proton is the port forwards chabges each login so important to ensure you’re comfortable wirh that and how to work with it. Air VPN you get 5 but a bit less speed.

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Did you bind the adapter in your torrent client? Your VPN probably isn’t the issue, it’s your setup.

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Proton VPN is probably the best. Make sure you bind the VPN to qBitTorrent.

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proton works good! Just make sure that you use the Beta Linux app, since it has wireguard. (Wireguard is better than OpenVPN for speed most of the time).

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Many proton nodes are the same server, commonly known as fake nodes. It is recommended that you turn on the kill switch.

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I have proton and qbittorrent, do I need to do anything else than enable port forwarding in Proton and copy the port to qBittorrent? Is that what you mean by ”binding”? Cheers

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what do you mean the port forward changes?

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https://github.com/UHAXM1/Quantum

Can just auto update the ports.

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Good point :o I didn’t setup my qbittorrent. I didn’t know you had to set it up using the good adapter until today…

Thanks for the info ^-^ I think I will switch to AirVPN once my surfshark subscription expire

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I have not had an issue using Surfshark. Confirm that you binder the VPN to your torrent client?

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From what I was able to piece, you need to put the right network adapter

Tools > Preference > Advanced > Network Interface

For me, I use “Surfshark_wg”. I’m unsure how proton is called.

I plan to create a virtual machine just for torrenting with my VPN’s network adaptor :3 so I’m sure if the connection get down, my VM would simply lose internet

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Probably that you need to change ports every time you open your torrent app. security wise there is no difference, only speed.

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Omg that is kinda awful though. I think about switching since ovpn is now has a creepy overlord but at least it just works

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Never had that issue, Mine always connects just fine

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Thank you, I will try to bookmark this. Since I get asked how to deal with the Proton ports a lot and I have no clue since I have enduring port forwards.

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I would highly recommend getting a good VPN such as Proton VPN, most free VPNs don’t allow torrenting through them, they’re more for general web surfing/anonymity. McAfee is garbage and I’d avoid any of their software all together.

As for binding qBittorrent to the VPN; what it essentially does is only allows torrenting whilst the VPN is connected so in the case of your VPN losing connection it won’t allow anymore traffic though and exposing your real IP address, obviously this can lead to letters from your ISP for downloading copyrighted material depending on the content and country.

Binding is the only safe way to torrent, you will see people talk about kill switches but it’s not 100% safe and best off avoiding kill switches in the case of torrenting.

Here’s a quick guide I found on Google:

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If using surfshark, make sure your ipv6 is turned off. Sometimes it doesnt get blocked. Proton has ipv6 support