Nord VPN / Stuck on Downloading Meta Data

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The problem: I understand there is a lot of hatred against Nord in this community but it has worked perfectly well for me over the past 5 years. Then about 2 weeks ago I have been stuck on downloading meta data with 0 peers and 0 seeders for all. I have 0 Nodes. I have Microsoft 11

Setup: I have used all the setup and settings that have been listed at NordVPN proxy setup for qBittorrent – Live Chat, VPN Setup, Troubleshooting | NordVPN Customer Support. These settings allowed me sufficient download speeds with zero leaks.

Binding: Yes, I have Nordlynx selected to bind me to my VPN along with kill switch on Nord as well as the program killswitch for Qbittorent. I understand the questionable behavior of kill switches so that is why I bind

Version: I am using Bittorrent v4.6.5. I have deleted the program 4 different times. Twice keeping the settings on reload and twice without.

Firewall: Both public and private permissions selected.

Trackers: I have copied and pasted trackers from another reddit link. This link I cannot find. I have “reannounce all trackers when I change routers” selected

New Socks5 Links: I utilized a few new Socks5 links from here https://www.reddit.com/r/nordvpn/comments/16soaf6/updated\_nordvpn\_socks5\_proxy\_list/. This worked for all of 30 minutes after I confirmed it was working through ipleak. Then everything stopped.

I am all out of ideas so if this community has any solutions that would be helpful. If you need any other info on which settings I have selected just ask and I will try to provide. Thank you in advance.

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Commenting because I’m having the exact same issue. I tried disconnecting from Nord and that made no difference. I’m not super technical so I’m hoping this thread can help me out

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I was having the same issue. I did not know about the new list so i did not try that. What I ended up doing is turning off the proxy server, downloading the windows nordvpn app and using it. Its not a good fix but it works and only took a few minutes to set up.

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Let me know if you try anything and it starts working!

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I will give it a try.

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So did you just bind it Nordlynx and that’s it? Did you have a problem with leaks? I guess I’m anxious to turn off socks5.

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I changed this setting from “OpenVPN…” to “Any interface” and it worked! Haven’t tried switching it back yet.

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As far as I can tell, yea.

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I would advise against that. You wanna make sure you keep that aligned to Nordlynx to bind it.

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Holy mommy fucking shit! It worked! You my friend are a gentleman and a scholar!

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BTW How did you learn about this tracker?

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For sure. Was just troubleshooting and realized that was what was causing the issue. Haven’t had a chance to figure out how to fix it but just thought I’d update anyway in case it is helpful to someone