Well I uninstalled the ESET and still having the same issue. Maybe the Proxy is down IDK. Should I use a IP address instead of using the proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com? If so, which IP?
Also is there instructions for setting up Firewall Rules for when the VPN drops? Sorry probably posted here somewhere I just schemed through the thread.
Well I uninstalled the ESET and still having the same issue. Maybe the Proxy is down IDK. Should I use a IP address instead of using the proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com? If so, which IP?
Also is there instructions for setting up Firewall Rules for when the VPN drops? Sorry probably posted here somewhere I just schemed through the thread.
Well I got it to work don't know what I did. I regenerated another password, shutdown Malwarebytes and check it, It was working. So I turn on the Malwarebytes and checked it again still working. Installed Norton which came with my PC and its still working. Don't know what made it worked but it working so im happy. Thanks for helping.
Using the proxy seems faster for uTorrent than using the VPN. My speed is naturally slower that it would be through my ISP, but not nearly as slow as the VPN. It seems like it's working. I generated a username/password and tested it with proxychecker and all that, but how can I see what IP I'm giving out.
I'm using the proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com instead of one of the numbered ones, but even with the numbered ones, what can we use to make certain it is working?
Sorry if this is a noob question but... If I have both the VPN client connected AND the proxy settings with utorrent - does the vpn client negate any additional speed benefits of the proxy? Does using both give you a doubly secure and anonymous connection? I'm not too overly bothered about speed so from an anonymity point of view is it better with or without proxy?
Well, harry, some users have reported that the proxy enhances their speed even when using it in addition to the VPN connection. But it could still be faster to use only the proxy, or in some cases only the VPN. What do you see when you do your own tests?
To stay DMCA-level anonymous, VPN and proxy don't differ. Anything more complicated, and the encryption of the VPN might be a benefit. In both cases, be sure to configure your torrent client correctly.
Is there any update in relation to adding more countries (than just the Netherlands) to this service?
I notice some VPNs are starting to pull out of Netherlands now (or documenting DCMA in their transparency reports) as the copyright cartels are targeting the netherlands based IPs now as well since it's been such a piracy hotspot.
I'd love to see a hong kong proxy as it should provide magnificent speeds to me here in Australia, but i'd like to see Canada, Sweden, etc added to provide some redundancy for when this goes down and provide people with a better route.
Almost every provider in the Asia/Pacific region has great links into Canada (because of such strong links into the US)
When can we see a proxy-hk.privateinternetaccess.com hostname please?
Users wanted to have proxies in more locations for quite a while now, I think most prominently the US (that's unlikely to happen, of course). But maybe CA or Romania could work? To make this stand out to PIA staff, please make a seperate thread about it. Include your reasoning, I quite like it.
For HK, please check your latency and route for the VPN servers. Shortly after their arrival, at least one Australian user posted various traceroutes which looked rather bad (Couldn't find that thread just now, but they routed over US west coast).
Tracing route to hk.privateinternetaccess.com [27.122.12.79]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms fritz.box [192.168.178.1]
2 22 ms 21 ms 20 ms 10.20.21.18
3 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms 203-26-22-037.static.tpgi.com.au [203.26.22.37]
4 266 ms 266 ms 271 ms hurricaneelectric3-10G.hkix.net [202.40.161.158]
5 266 ms 272 ms 270 ms pacswitch.gigabitethernet3-9.core1.hkg1.he.net [
27.50.33.34]
6 269 ms 270 ms 271 ms pacone14.mailingespro.com [27.122.12.79]
Trace complete.
Only 6 hops! At just under 300ms, that is a bit high, other VPN providers give me about 150-180ms to Hong Kong, but that maybe just a testament to the popularity of the PIA service.
Since you see 190ms to the US West Coast (San Jose), but 250ms to HK, I'd suggest that you're indeed routed physically over AU-US-HK cables. At least it looks like your traffic doesn't go through the public exchanges in SJ or LA. I think however that a direct cable would yield <200ms latency.
Currently have Deluge configured to use the proxy. ipleak.net confirms that the proxy is being used (shows netherlands ip address). Some torrents (eg linux distros) download very fast (>3M down). But other popular torrents (TV, movies, etc) will not connect to trackers at all. Anyone have any ideas?
toasterslayer, sometimes IP addresses of the proxy or gateways (for VPN connections) have a very high amount of torrent clients, so the trackers get flooded with announces and scrapes. It looks like many tracker admins choose to (temporarily) block these IPs. PIA has tried to contact tracker staff in the past, with mixed results IIRC. Try contacting PIA support and tracker admins with the affected IP address.
As an aside, connecting by VPN with port forward works, but only gets speeds about 1/3 of what I formerly had with the proxy. The same trackers are still being blocked, and when contacting PIA support they basically said don't use the proxy, use VPN. Disappointing, but at least it (sort of) works.
Hi. Do you only have the one proxy in NL? I'm primarily using your VPN service for location spoofing so that I can watch UK & US TV in Philippines over a pretty lousy connection. I think a proxy would probably help me but only if it was in the right place.
This proxy is a joke. It's not funny how often Vuze keeps switching proxy status to yellow. And now that I grabbed the latest update to the VPN, it keeps saying "connection refused" even with the VPN off. The first post in this thread calls the server "overpowered," but I think it's overpowered in the classical definition, not the way they meant.
@doritos: You might also want to keep in mind that Vuze's proxy support is a joke.
Connectivity issues don't always have to do with the remote side. I understand your need to vent your frustration, but if you want to do more and try to diagnose stuff and maybe get it working again, let us know.
@doritos: You might also want to keep in mind that Vuze's proxy support is a joke.
Connectivity issues don't always have to do with the remote side. I understand your need to vent your frustration, but if you want to do more and try to diagnose stuff and maybe get it working again, let us know.
Looking at the rest of the thread, I'm not the only one who's seen the proxy go down time and time again. I have no real problems with the VPN service that I paid for, but let's not be disingenuous about the proxy not being as reliable as it should be.
Then again, I never have problems, and seeing as PIA has thousands of users I still feel that if it were 100 users reporting problems those would still be a minority.
I'm not saying that it's expected that some users don't have access to the proxy, it's just that internet services are sometimes flaky. In this case, some users report that they don't have problems with the proxy when they use an IP address instead of the hostname. So it might just be an issue related to DNS resolution, which could be a problem on PIA's side, but could also be with whatever DNS servers they're using.
Since you mentioned Vuze - I checked screenshots and the documentation, and there never is mention of an explicit status indicator for the proxy. If you are referring to the green smiley you get when you can accept incoming connections, that can never happen if using the proxy, because the proxy protocol (and not only this particular server instance managed by PIA) does not support incoming connections.
Most of the screenshots are for outdated versions. Go into preferences. Connection section, proxy options subsection. Check "Show SOCKS icon in status area when enabled" toward the bottom of the screen. Sorry, but it's hard to respect your opinion of an application as "junk" if you show you're unfamiliar with it.
Also, when I click on the "test SOCKS" button, it often tells me there are connection problems. As of now, 00:26 GMT, the icon is yellow and the test returns "Connect failed, Connection refused." Other times, the test just continues endlessly without returning a result. If you want people to use an IP address, then there should be an official mention of it at the beginning of the thread. As it is, there's only an address supplied by a third party on the first page, and I would never connect with my user name and password to an unknown, unconfirmed address. Or better yet, an official web page instead of still treating the proxy as some untrusted beta that's not ready for prime time. It's been a year and a half since this thread was started and PIA apparently still doesn't have enough confidence in the proxy to make it an official service.
Since you mentioned Vuze - I checked screenshots and the documentation, and there never is mention of an explicit status indicator for the proxy. If you are referring to the green smiley you get when you can accept incoming connections, that can never happen if using the proxy, because the proxy protocol (and not only this particular server instance managed by PIA) does not support incoming connections.
And it just happened again. Was working, then everything stopped in the middle of a download and it says "connection refused." You can't tell me it's Vuze's fault when nothing changed on my end.
You don't have to respect my opinion. In fact, it's good that you challenged it, because now I know that Vuze is junk because their documentation is outdated
No seriously, if you're fine with it you shouldn't care about other opinions unless they are argumentative, i.e. provide proof. I haven't liked Vuze since it broke what a nice client Azureus had been, I don't even know if it still looks the same today as it did then.
But, since apparently they do have a proxy status indicator, maybe you could explain what it actually shows, i.e. what stati (is that the plural? "Statuses" looks weird) are possible, what does every status mean. Is there any way to get a debug log or a textual description of the status from the running process?
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The VPN still connects I just liked having the proxy on too in case it drops.
Proxy connect error: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its acess permissions
To stay DMCA-level anonymous, VPN and proxy don't differ. Anything more complicated, and the encryption of the VPN might be a benefit.
In both cases, be sure to configure your torrent client correctly.
I notice some VPNs are starting to pull out of Netherlands now (or documenting DCMA in their transparency reports) as the copyright cartels are targeting the netherlands based IPs now as well since it's been such a piracy hotspot.
I'd love to see a hong kong proxy as it should provide magnificent speeds to me here in Australia, but i'd like to see Canada, Sweden, etc added to provide some redundancy for when this goes down and provide people with a better route.
Almost every provider in the Asia/Pacific region has great links into Canada (because of such strong links into the US)
When can we see a proxy-hk.privateinternetaccess.com hostname please?
To make this stand out to PIA staff, please make a seperate thread about it. Include your reasoning, I quite like it.
For HK, please check your latency and route for the VPN servers. Shortly after their arrival, at least one Australian user posted various traceroutes which looked rather bad (Couldn't find that thread just now, but they routed over US west coast).
At least it looks like your traffic doesn't go through the public exchanges in SJ or LA. I think however that a direct cable would yield <200ms latency.
Great! Now I just download my torrents in safety! thanks PIA! No longer need to put all my applications in VPN!
PIA has tried to contact tracker staff in the past, with mixed results IIRC. Try contacting PIA support and tracker admins with the affected IP address.
Does the VPN connection to an US gateway location not work for you?
Connectivity issues don't always have to do with the remote side. I understand your need to vent your frustration, but if you want to do more and try to diagnose stuff and maybe get it working again, let us know.
I'm not saying that it's expected that some users don't have access to the proxy, it's just that internet services are sometimes flaky. In this case, some users report that they don't have problems with the proxy when they use an IP address instead of the hostname. So it might just be an issue related to DNS resolution, which could be a problem on PIA's side, but could also be with whatever DNS servers they're using.
Since you mentioned Vuze - I checked screenshots and the documentation, and there never is mention of an explicit status indicator for the proxy. If you are referring to the green smiley you get when you can accept incoming connections, that can never happen if using the proxy, because the proxy protocol (and not only this particular server instance managed by PIA) does not support incoming connections.
Also, when I click on the "test SOCKS" button, it often tells me there are connection problems. As of now, 00:26 GMT, the icon is yellow and the test returns "Connect failed, Connection refused." Other times, the test just continues endlessly without returning a result. If you want people to use an IP address, then there should be an official mention of it at the beginning of the thread. As it is, there's only an address supplied by a third party on the first page, and I would never connect with my user name and password to an unknown, unconfirmed address. Or better yet, an official web page instead of still treating the proxy as some untrusted beta that's not ready for prime time. It's been a year and a half since this thread was started and PIA apparently still doesn't have enough confidence in the proxy to make it an official service.
No seriously, if you're fine with it you shouldn't care about other opinions unless they are argumentative, i.e. provide proof. I haven't liked Vuze since it broke what a nice client Azureus had been, I don't even know if it still looks the same today as it did then.
But, since apparently they do have a proxy status indicator, maybe you could explain what it actually shows, i.e. what stati (is that the plural? "Statuses" looks weird) are possible, what does every status mean. Is there any way to get a debug log or a textual description of the status from the running process?