There was an e-mail sent about the change to the PPTP/L2TP/Proxy username/password system, I'd strongly suggest checking to make sure you're using the x<username> and password generated in the main panel.
There was an e-mail sent about the change to the PPTP/L2TP/Proxy username/password system, I'd strongly suggest checking to make sure you're using the x<username> and password generated in the main panel.
Thanks, Alex. I've been having proxy access problems for a week now after smooth sailing for months! Although I never received the email you mentioned, I was able to figure out the new proxy password protocol and generate a new password in the Client Control Panel. Problem solved!
What options under the 'Bittorrent' section need to be checked/un-checked in terms of keeping things properly secured? UDP tracker support appears to be the 'lynch-pin' - if it is disabled, no torrents will function. Is that a problem? How about DHT, local peer discovery, peer exchange? Does one need to enter the proxy address in the 'hostname to report back to tracker' section?
Basically, I'd just like to know which boxes in the 'bit torrent' section of uTorrent should be checked or left unchecked to keep things secure/anon.
I am also having the problem with uTorrent hanging at "connecting to peers". The trackers info shows "connection timed out" for most, but other errors are:
- Proxy connect error - connection closed by peer
- Proxy connect error - Error -7
- Failure: Connection timed out
I followed the exact instructions to set up the connection proxy in uTorrent, and am using the generated password in my uTorrent proxy settings.
I checked the torrent in question using uTorrent in a VM on the same machine (I'm running Win7) and it worked fine.
I also downloaded and ran the Proxy Checker tool, using my username and generated password, and the test passed.
I believe I have yet to see a report from someone who contacted tracker operators and verified that the proxy addresses are not blocked or filtered on their end. For anything else proxy related, see the proxy UDP thread, where I explained how to analyze if your proxy connection works or not.
If I disable the socks5 proxy in uTorrent, and connect using the PIA VPN, there's no problem connecting to the trackers.
I just looked at the proxy UDP thread, and saw your comment, but couldn't derive any practical help from it in terms of reconfiguring uTorrent or PIA to address this issue
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HI guys im using internet directly with my proxy,but my utorrent cant download anything using that proxy,is it blocked to download anything??any repies please im using win8
HI guys im using internet directly with my proxy,but my utorrent cant download anything using that proxy,is it blocked to download anything??any repies please im using win8
Thanks. Very useful thread. My already slow connection is slowed a good deal when I connect using the default program but this lets me nab torrents while leaving my browser/dl manager at full speed. Even resolved a bunch of speed/connection issues on torrents and my speeds improved. Totally maxed my connection out. Wish I had discovered this thread a long time ago.
Places like check torrent ip seem to confirm. Any other settings/advanced settings I need to mess with? Not too techy so I don't know how secure it is but speed wise its working so well I hope its enough.
Thanks. Very useful thread. My already slow connection is slowed a good deal when I connect using the default program but this lets me nab torrents while leaving my browser/dl manager at full speed. Even resolved a bunch of speed/connection issues on torrents and my speeds improved. Totally maxed my connection out. Wish I had discovered this thread a long time ago.
Places like check torrent ip seem to confirm. Any other settings/advanced settings I need to mess with? Not too techy so I don't know how secure it is but speed wise its working so well I hope its enough.
No other settings need to be changed, however, for full protection I would recommend using the vpn instead of proxy.
From what I understand the ip is masked but the the traffic/type is visible. I have enabled encryption on utorrent but maybe forced setting in the config/pref would suffice but @ expense of some peers though.
If you set the client to force encryption then it should not matter if you use a proxy or not. It would be one hell of a bug to not force encryption when you explicitly tell the client to force it.
But then again uTorrent is not the client I use. And I only very rarely touch torrents. So I may be missing something crucial about this.
*Edit* I am aware that if it actually forces encryption and the proxy cannot support it that it would break the function of the client.
Encryption settings in torrent clients will encrypt data and torrent protocol headers transparently inside the torrent transfer, it works wherever torrents work. However, the actual effectiveness of torrent encryption depends heavily on the user's provider environment. Since the encryption itself is so weak (to keep handshakes small&fast and overhead low), it can be cracked with moderate amount of computing power. Its main purpose today, obfuscating torrent traffic to avoid throttling by the uplink provider, can work if the provider uses weak or older tools to detect that traffic. Newer solutions will detect even encrypted torrent transfers with high accurancy. Using a Socks proxy itself could be enough to avoid throttling for those weaker detection systems, and using socks with encryption could fool more still.
Again, the connection to the proxy itself is not encrypted. That means that especially socks protocol commands are transferred readable, and watching those for tracker addresses will still let observers see what you are doing.
I cannot for the life of me with Private Internet Access, torrent. I get 0 out of 0 seeds and 0 out of 0 peers and it has me completely pissed of and wanting to say scre PIA for good. This is a joke!
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after smooth sailing for months! Although I never received the email you
mentioned, I was able to figure out the new proxy password protocol and generate
a new password in the Client Control Panel. Problem solved!
Temporary solution: In order for you to be able to read the tutorials the web page/s will have to be loaded in desktop mode.
Cheerio
Places like check torrent ip seem to confirm. Any other settings/advanced settings I need to mess with? Not too techy so I don't know how secure it is but speed wise its working so well I hope its enough.
But then again uTorrent is not the client I use. And I only very rarely touch torrents. So I may be missing something crucial about this.
*Edit* I am aware that if it actually forces encryption and the proxy cannot support it that it would break the function of the client.
However, the actual effectiveness of torrent encryption depends heavily on the user's provider environment. Since the encryption itself is so weak (to keep handshakes small&fast and overhead low), it can be cracked with moderate amount of computing power. Its main purpose today, obfuscating torrent traffic to avoid throttling by the uplink provider, can work if the provider uses weak or older tools to detect that traffic. Newer solutions will detect even encrypted torrent transfers with high accurancy.
Using a Socks proxy itself could be enough to avoid throttling for those weaker detection systems, and using socks with encryption could fool more still.
Again, the connection to the proxy itself is not encrypted. That means that especially socks protocol commands are transferred readable, and watching those for tracker addresses will still let observers see what you are doing.