Best Torrenting Server

Tehcookiemonsta

Hey Guys, I just set up my PIA today and i really do want to give it a go however if i find it's too slow in this 7 day period i am going get a refund.

So i need help knowing which servers to use for torrenting and which servers are allowed to be used for torrenting i am on an apple computer and from Australia. ( My main reason i bought PIA, bye bye MetaData Retention)

Also is there any specific port i need to put in my torrent and whatnot. Any settings to optimize?

I generally don't have very fast internet coming from Australia.  Average actual Download speed of 600 KB's

Also is there any accurate way of testing my general download speed as from US i was getting 70 KB's when i used a Youtube downloader on which i always max my bandwidth on. 

Synopsis

Hello!

Thank you for your interest in our service! I'd have to suggest that you try connections with each available region first, starting with what's closest to you geographically. Next, I'd have to suggest using trial and error with the remote ports in our app, and seeing if use of any specific one produces the best result in speeds. Finally, if there's a large drop in speeds, I'd consider using Port Forwarding. You'd simply enable it in our application from the Advanced Settings menu, reconnect to one of the following regions:

CA Toronto

CA North York

Netherlands

Switzerland

Sweden

France

Germany

Russia

Romania

Hong Kong

Israel


Once connected, hover your mouse pointer over the icon in the menubar and it should populate your pointer's Tooltip. You can then enter this forwarded port into your Torrent client, and so long as none of your firewalls block it you may find that helps with Speeds. If none of this helps I'd have to suggest that you start a ticket for any issues by emailing [email protected] and that was troubleshooting can be applied and tracked.

Cookie2016

Can we get an update on the servers to use for torrenting please?

p1419878

The previous VPN service I was signed up for actually had a tool you could use to test all the servers either world wide or by country that did a ping test.speed test with an asterisk beside those servers that were torrent friendly. Sure helped when hunting down the fastest most convenient torrent server. Sure beats trying out each server individually. Just sayin'

Max-P

p1419878 said:

The previous VPN service I was signed up for actually had a tool you could use to test all the servers either world wide or by country that did a ping test.speed test with an asterisk beside those servers that were torrent friendly. Sure helped when hunting down the fastest most convenient torrent server. Sure beats trying out each server individually. Just sayin'

The fastest server will usually always be the closest one geographically. The easiest way to sort servers would be to check on the mobile apps as those do display the ping times in the server list. Just pick the lowest latency that supports port forwarding.

Another option would be to do the speed tests on the network page. That way you can measure both the ping and bandwidth to all of them easily without having to connect and disconnect a bunch of times. Not quite as automated as you'd hope, but still a lot faster than connecting, running a test, disconnecting, next...

p1419878

Thanks Max-P. Although the server closest to me is, in fact the fastest, it does preclude me from accessing some American content (video links) that are not available in my country. A small niggling problem but frustrating at times nonetheless.
Thanks again for your response.

I'm a newbie to PIA and so far - very pleased with the service.

DeathStalker

Agreed - it would be a nice (web-based) feature to have to show all the worldwide mappings and run a test - I would see it as actually 2 *separate* tests - 1 to test non-P2P speeds, and 1 to specifically test P2P speeds.

I cannot express how TREMENDOUSLY helpful that would be!     @Max-P, thoughts on the possibility?