I just bought Proton and started downloading some movies and only getting 1 MB/s download whilst being on the “fastest” profile/connection in the app. Brand new to VPN in general so I’m not sure if I can tweak any settings or whatnot to help. 30 SE/12 LE for the torrent.
You may need to enable port forwarding in ProtonVPN’s advanced settings.
It can also depend on how many fast seeders are available for a particular file, which often will be limited if your not seeding yourself.
Finally, you might try selecting a different VPN server in ProtonVPN.
What’s the speed without VPN? I’ve noticed torrents aren’t as fast but it could be due to other reasons.
I enjoy reading books.
What do you mean « Downloading movies » ? You mean illegaly ?
Just to expand on the above comment: the ProtonVPN app will give you a port, you configure this port on your torrent client. This should raise your speed because then you can have inbound connections. What is a bit annoying is that AFAIK you need to configure the port every time.
So I disconnected from the VPN for a second to check, and it immediately jumped to 6 MB/s and averaged around 5.5
Really weird. After reconnecting to the VPN again it actually increased in download speed? Not sure why, is that normal?
Just as a sidenote, it isn’t illegal everywhere 
Setting up the port forward is dead simple, takes 2 seconds each time. Press the setting cog in qBT, type the port number, done.
After hearing all the commentary about how user unfriendly the rolling ports are with Proton VPN, I was very surprised to realise just how easy it is.
Article about it
Unfortunately only the Windows ProtonVPN app supports port-forwarding. E.g. macos users need to use third-party clients like tunnelblick or the wireguard app. But even so downloads seem to be slower than with my previous provider
It probably connected you to a different server with less load
OHHHH, is that like the little colored circles in the drop down menu of the countries? So go for one that’s green and not yellow or red?