I enabled it and connected to one of the select gateways, but I'm not getting a 5-digit port number when I mouse-over the PIA icon. Am I missing something here?
piatortilla - if this helps you still or someone in the future. I had the same problem as you, I assume, when you hover over the PIA icon you only see the IP address and it ends there (the port comes after the IP normally). Try this, you probably have several items down in your system tray... just drag the PIA icon one way or the other so it's in a different position relative to other tray icons, and then release it. Now hover and see if you can see the port. At first when it happened on this PC I thought it was because I had the icon too far to the right in the system tray area (which shouldn't happen either way). Then when it happened later, I put it back in its old relative position to the right but I could still see the port number. So it's a minor coding issue or software conflict. I know what to do if it happens again.
Bro, thank you so much! I spent MONTHS trying to figure that out. Like you, I exhausted every resource and customer service agent I could find. To think it was 2 effing check boxes that whole time. Now I get full speed downloads. You are seriously my hero.
so for months and months ive been experiencing HUGE torrent slowdowns while using PIA VPN.
I have virgin media 100mb fibre at home and usually without PIA VPN i get download speeds of between 9.0MB/s and 11.5MB/s which is what I would expect.
HOWEVER
with PIA VPN enabled i usually struggle to reach 1.5MB/s. After ripping my hair out for months and a lot of communication with PIA customer support (who to be fair to them have done the best they could),,,
SUCCESS, IM NOW DOWNLOADING TORRENTS AT 10MB/s through PIA VPN!!!
I came across the solution randomly today while reading a forum post about how to get a torguard socks5 proxy working...
SOLUTION:
1) make sure you are disconnected from the PIA VPN
2) go into utorrent and go to: Options ---> Preferences
3) click on "Bandwidth" on the left hand side and find a checkbox that says " Apply rate limit to uTP connections" and UNCHECK IT
4) now click on "Bittorrent" on the left hand side and find another checkbox that says "Enable bandwidth mangemnet (uTP)" and UNCHECK THAT TOO
5) reconnect to a port forwarding server and sort out port forwarding in utorrent.
6) start downloading a torrent and hopefully it will go to your full line speed
I dont know if this will work for anyone else but it was the ONLY thing after months of investigation that worked for me so please let me know in a comment if it works
Confirmed Working.
Thanks a lot dude I was pulling my hair out wondering why my torrents weren't working, you are the man, thanks a lot!
so for months and months ive been experiencing HUGE torrent slowdowns while using PIA VPN.
I have virgin media 100mb fibre at home and usually without PIA VPN i get download speeds of between 9.0MB/s and 11.5MB/s which is what I would expect.
HOWEVER
with PIA VPN enabled i usually struggle to reach 1.5MB/s. After ripping my hair out for months and a lot of communication with PIA customer support (who to be fair to them have done the best they could),,,
SUCCESS, IM NOW DOWNLOADING TORRENTS AT 10MB/s through PIA VPN!!!
I came across the solution randomly today while reading a forum post about how to get a torguard socks5 proxy working...
SOLUTION:
1) make sure you are disconnected from the PIA VPN
2) go into utorrent and go to: Options ---> Preferences
3) click on "Bandwidth" on the left hand side and find a checkbox that says " Apply rate limit to uTP connections" and UNCHECK IT
4) now click on "Bittorrent" on the left hand side and find another checkbox that says "Enable bandwidth mangemnet (uTP)" and UNCHECK THAT TOO
5) reconnect to a port forwarding server and sort out port forwarding in utorrent.
6) start downloading a torrent and hopefully it will go to your full line speed
I dont know if this will work for anyone else but it was the ONLY thing after months of investigation that worked for me so please let me know in a comment if it works
I'm trying to follow Steps 3 and 4 on a Macbook, and but:
1) there is no "Apply rate limit to uTP connections" checkbox under the Bandwidth section. This is all I see under the Bandwidth section: https://ibb.co/iEzyq8
2) there is no "Enable bandwidth management (uTP)" checkbox under the Bittorrent section. This is all I see under Bittorrent: https://ibb.co/kOaA3T
Advice on how to proceed would be appreciated! Thanks.
1) make sure you are disconnected from the PIA VPN
2) go into utorrent and go to: Options ---> Preferences
3) click on "Bandwidth" on the left hand side and find a checkbox that says " Apply rate limit to uTP connections" and UNCHECK IT
4) now click on "Bittorrent" on the left hand side and find another checkbox that says "Enable bandwidth mangemnet (uTP)" and UNCHECK THAT TOO
5) reconnect to a port forwarding server and sort out port forwarding in utorrent.
6) start downloading a torrent and hopefully it will go to your full line speed
I dont know if this will work for anyone else but it was the ONLY thing after months of investigation that worked for me so please let me know in a comment if it works
I'm trying to follow Steps 3 and 4 on a Macbook, and but:
1) there is no "Apply rate limit to uTP connections" checkbox under the Bandwidth section. This is all I see under the Bandwidth section: https://ibb.co/iEzyq8
2) there is no "Enable bandwidth management (uTP)" checkbox under the Bittorrent section. This is all I see under Bittorrent: https://ibb.co/kOaA3T
Advice on how to proceed would be appreciated! Thanks.
#1 - APPLY RATE LIMIT to UTP is in BANDWIDTH Tab,
#2 - "Enable bandwidth management (uTP)" checkbox under the Bittorrent
These instructions were for the in uTorrent PRO (Windows PC) as well as in uTorrent FREE (Windows PC) .... it must have been changed in MAC versions.
I am currently using UTorrent Pro 3.5 on my Windows PC and his instructions were correct for me. I guess it was never mentioned by anyone before you that the MAC version of uTorrent had changed the locations of these check boxes.
1) make sure you are disconnected from the PIA VPN
2) go into utorrent and go to: Options ---> Preferences
3) click on "Bandwidth" on the left hand side and find a checkbox that says " Apply rate limit to uTP connections" and UNCHECK IT
4) now click on "Bittorrent" on the left hand side and find another checkbox that says "Enable bandwidth mangemnet (uTP)" and UNCHECK THAT TOO
5) reconnect to a port forwarding server and sort out port forwarding in utorrent.
6) start downloading a torrent and hopefully it will go to your full line speed
I dont know if this will work for anyone else but it was the ONLY thing after months of investigation that worked for me so please let me know in a comment if it works
I'm trying to follow Steps 3 and 4 on a Macbook, and but:
1) there is no "Apply rate limit to uTP connections" checkbox under the Bandwidth section. This is all I see under the Bandwidth section: https://ibb.co/iEzyq8
2) there is no "Enable bandwidth management (uTP)" checkbox under the Bittorrent section. This is all I see under Bittorrent: https://ibb.co/kOaA3T
Advice on how to proceed would be appreciated! Thanks.
#1 - APPLY RATE LIMIT to UTP is in BANDWIDTH Tab,
#2 - "Enable bandwidth management (uTP)" checkbox under the Bittorrent
These instructions were for the in uTorrent PRO (Windows PC) as well as in uTorrent FREE (Windows PC) .... it must have been changed in MAC versions.
I am currently using UTorrent Pro 3.5 on my Windows PC and his instructions were correct for me. I guess it was never mentioned by anyone before you that the MAC version of uTorrent had changed the locations of these check boxes.
I find this interesting. If I set up BitTorrent7.1, and I have port forwarding on I see no change in download speed. To me, speed is dependent on how many seeds there are and what they have as a upload capability, not what your download (unless you are using 9600 baud) speed is. Granted, if you DLS is faster than the ULS then you are limited to the upload.
Solved this in qBittorrent: Options > Connection > Select "TCP" in the Enabled protocol dropdown.
Then enable port forwarding and connect to a server that supports that. Note the port number shown in the PIA client and enter it in the "Port used for incoming connections" field in the Connection section.
Hi I'm not changing settings in Deluge correctly I think because the download speed is a third of what it usually is still. I selected the enable_incoming_utp and enable_outgoing_utp then unchecked the box in the Setting column. I'm kinda confused about the rate_limit_utp part though. Should I select it as well and uncheck the box in Setting column like I meantioned above, or not select it at all? Currently I don't have rate_limit_utp selected at all. I don't know how to show you images because I can't attach any in this post and I don't have a url link to them.
There's also a dropdown box in my lTConfig and it starts with the Pre-ltConfig option selected. I think thats right one but in case the other 3 option are: Libtorrent Defaults, High Performance Seed, and Minimum Memory Usage.
Please let me know (here in post and email to: [email protected]) if I'm doing it wrong and if you need images let me know how to put them up too.
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Thanks a lot dude I was pulling my hair out wondering why my torrents weren't working, you are the man, thanks a lot!
I'm trying to follow Steps 3 and 4 on a Macbook, and but:
1) there is no "Apply rate limit to uTP connections" checkbox under the Bandwidth section. This is all I see under the Bandwidth section: https://ibb.co/iEzyq8
2) there is no "Enable bandwidth management (uTP)" checkbox under the Bittorrent section. This is all I see under Bittorrent: https://ibb.co/kOaA3T
Advice on how to proceed would be appreciated! Thanks.
Right, so does anybody have a solution that works with their Mac uTorrent?
JMHO
There's also a dropdown box in my lTConfig and it starts with the Pre-ltConfig option selected. I think thats right one but in case the other 3 option are: Libtorrent Defaults, High Performance Seed, and Minimum Memory Usage.
Please let me know (here in post and email to: [email protected]) if I'm doing it wrong and if you need images let me know how to put them up too.
Thanks