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Tutorials qBittorrent: Download torrent anonymously with a VPN connection

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qBittorrent is an open source BitTorrent client featuring an IP filtering system that’s very popular in the torrent community. It is based on the libtorrent-rasterbar and Qt toolkit. In addition to being very lightweight and clean, it offers the possibility to download using an encrypted connection. Indeed, you can force all your torrent data to use your VPN connection. And if this reason was not enough for you to adopt it, this software is devoid of ads and other malware. Let’s review qBittorrent in details now.

Combine qBittorrent and VPN for anonymous torrenting

Today I’ll show you how to setup qBittorrent to be safe while downloading popular torrents. Because this torrent client offers a nice feature which allows you to use only one given connection. And in our case, your VPN connection.

It’s important to know that qBittorent is a tool originally designed for peer to peer exchange (P2P). This way, the tool in itself is completely legal. However, it can be illegal to download certain types of content depending on the laws applicable to your country. One of the many reasons that it rose to popularity was its built-in torrent search engine. Enabling simultaneous search made the job so much easier for people searching for specific content. The qBittorrent software has the ability to, firstly, go through a vast amount of Torrent search sites, while doing category-specific search requests.

While this might sound complicated, it’s not. The user interfaces are easy to navigate and might seem rather familiar if you have experience with µTorrent.

Prerequisites to use a VPN with qBittorent


Subscribe and install a VPN software

First of all, you’re going to need a good VPN for torrenting. Indeed, before attempting any activity, you should secure your connection. Because you could give hints of your activity while downloading a torrent client or visiting a torrent website!

Therefore, you’ll have to subscribe to a VPN service. And if you don’t know what provider to choose, pick one in the list below.
Because I recommend these for downloading torrents. They’re fast, torrent friendly and have a strict no-logging policy.

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Obviously, once you have installed a VPN client on your device, you have to launch it and connect. Because you’d better connect to your VPN at the startup of your device anyway. Indeed, the Internet is wonderful but full of dangers as well. And then you can safely proceed to the next step!

Download and install qBittorrent



Find a torrent tracker

While there are hundreds of torrent trackers on the web, that you can easily find with your favourite search engine, not all are safe. Indeed, you could be downloading 4 GB of extreme adult content instead of the last Disney movie… Therefore, check each file before playing in front of an audience!


So, here are my three favourite trackers and the most popular torrent sites to find content:

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TPB is the oldest torrent tracker. Pirate Bay and Kickass torrents are the largest torrent sites. And they’re the best alternatives to ExtraTorrent. You can find almost anything: Music, movies TV shows, etc.


Configure qBittorrent to download anonymously

Now that you’ve installed everything you need, let’s see how to optimize qBittorrent settings to protect your privacy. Indeed, if you start downloading torrents now, your torrent client may still use your ISP DNS server. And you could be the victim of a DNS leak. Therefore your real IP address could be in the clear…

First of all, you need to find the option in the client. Therefore you need to click on Tools and then Options. And you’ll get a pop-up window with seven tabs where you can change all settings. Since not all tabs are relevant for this topic, I’ll only mention the ones where you need to enable/disable an option.

Connection tab

First of all, you need to set two things on the Connection tab, in these two sections:

  • Listening Port: This is the port through which qBittorrent listen for peer connection.
    • Port number = By default, it’s 8999. But you can choose any or click on random
    • Use uPnp/NAT PMP = If checked, it will automatically forward the port through your router. But you don’t really need it with a VPN. So you can uncheck this box.
- Use different port on each startup = By default, it’s unchecked. So you can leave it like this.

Connections Limit: These are the settings related to the number of peers for upload and download.
  • Global maximum number of connections = I recommend you to set the value to 1250.
  • Maximum number of connections per torrent = I recommend you to set the value to 250.
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BitTorrent tab

Also in the BitTorrent tab, there’s one thing to do. Indeed, you can uncheck Torrent Queuing to remove the limits on the number of torrents being downloaded and uploaded.

Furthermore, you can change the Encryption mode to Require encryption. As a result, qBittorrent will only connect to encrypted peers. While this feature encrypts 100% of your torrent activity, you’ll get access to fewer peers. Because most people don’t enable encryption.

So the optimal settings look like this:

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Advanced tab

The Advanced tab is where you can limit the torrent client to use a given network connection. And in our case, a VPN connection. Indeed, in qBittorrent you can select a single Network Interface. And when you install a VPN software it generally creates the corresponding network interface.

However, you’ll need to know which network adapter to select. Because it’s very likely the adapters names are Local Area Connection or Ethernet 2, Ethernet 3 etc. Therefore, you need to open Network Connections in Windows. And then check which is the adapter of your VPN – You can rename it for ease of use. In this example, I’ll use ExpressVPN.

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Then go back to qBittorrent Advanced tab and select the correct Network Interface. And restart the client.

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And this option adds an extra layer of security, in case your VPN doesn’t have a kill switch. Indeed, if the VPN connection drops, then all your torrents stop. Because it’s only using the network adapter that’s not connected anymore.

Verify your IP’s not leaking

Now you’re all done. But can you really download torrents anonymously with qBittorrent and a VPN? You can run some tests before downloading. Indeed, just visit IPLeak. And you’ll have the results for the first two tests:

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If you can see your real IP address and/or the address of your ISP, you have a DNS leak. So check your VPN client for DNS leak protection. However, not having a DNS leak on web browsing (the HTTP protocol) is not enough.

Indeed, you need to make sure your torrent client is leak proof. Scroll down to Torrent Address detection to test if your torrent client is leaking your real IP address. Follow the on-screen instructions and wait for the results to appear.

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Once again, if you see your real IP address and/or the address of your ISP, you have a DNS leak… So, make sure your VPN is setup correctly.
And contact your VPN provider if you can’t get it right. Because it may be a problem with their network.


How to download torrents with qBittorrent?

While I could download any content, today I’ll download Ubuntu 16.10 Desktop (64-bit) from the official website. Indeed, it doesn’t matter what kind of content you want to download. Because everything works the same.

Therefore, right click on the torrent link and click on Copy link address (or similar, depending on your browser). And it works the same with magnet links.


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And then back to the client, where you have to add the torrent link. Seems like qBittorrent know their users. Because it’s very easy to do so. Indeed, just click the first icon on the left side of the client. And a pop up should appear, with your copied link already pasted there.

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And then click Download and select the folder where you want to save your file. That’s it, the torrent starts downloading automatically. And on the interface, you can get all the statistics and the ETA.

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Using a VPN with this torrent client is the best way to avoid copyright infringement and its consequences!

This is for qBittorrent only I don't know will that work on other torrent client.
 
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Kickass is back! I like 1337x too

qbittorrent also comes portable as well. Thanks @Iceman96 , I went and did a DNS leak test with no issues. We could put together a list of good free DNS servers
 
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Thanks for the tutorial. I'm scratching my head now??
 

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Thanks for the tutorial. I'm scratching my head now??

Lol why?
 

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Reading and remembering all these settings make my head ?
 

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Reading and remembering all these settings make my head ?

Do you try to memorize everything you read? That's a tough way to learn
 

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@Iceman96,
Incredible and so helpful, at least for me. Thanks for all the time and effort you spent on this great tutorial you made. It is so well done and easy to follow etc. You are one of the indispensable people of TeamOS (of which there are many others.) Thank you for all you do for everyone here. And a shout out of thanks to the Admins and Moderators as well. Having checked out other sites that are in the same category as TeamOS, or at least try to be, this is no doubt the best by a very long shot. The vast majority of people here are what make this such a great site and you are definitely one of the jewels in the crown that TeamOS wears as the king of the Internet. The more time I spend here, the more time I want to spend.
Brian
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thank you for this very helpful. hopefully will help my seeding maybe
 

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Thank you:)
 

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:hi: So, would you recommend qBitTorrent over uTorrent?
Thank you. you also just reminded me to turn on my VPN.:blush:
 

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Yes, always
 

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Excellent tutorial - thanks.

Use NordVPN which has a kill switch but didn't realise that you can choose your connection type in QBtorrent...

best regards
 

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This is a fantastic tutorial!!!

I used NordVPN and qBittorrent for awhile now and never checked if it was actually using my VPN correctly before now! But this definitely makes me feel better about my torrent client use and using your settings!!!

Great write up my friend! :clap:
 

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Great tutorial. Thanks Bro!
 

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Thanks for usefull tips. About encryption, can you tell please,
what is better to choose: allow or disable it.
 

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Thanks for usefull tips. About encryption, can you tell please,
what is better to choose: allow or disable it.

allow for better security :)
 

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allow for better security :)
Thank you.
 

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thanks
 

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Thanks for a very nice and useful tutorial.
 

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Should I check anonymous mode in Qbittorent settings?
 
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