I have been torrenting for a little while now and use ProtonVPN with port forwarding. I use their P2P preset and use qbittorrent. In the beginning it was all fine and working, i got a solid seeding speed of ~800Mbits after configuring everything (I have 1 Gigabit internet speed). Lately though it’s like no traffic goes through.
There are countless of times that I get a bad gateway or time out whenever i try to open any website. The torrent takes ages to retrieve metadata and my upload/download speed can go anywhere between 50KiB/s to 70MiB/s. Usually at the higher end when i’m idling and not doing anything else and after having it run for a while. But it’s been getting worse and worse and worse and i have no clue why.
- I’ve tried changing from Wireguard TCP to UDP, no luck.
- I’ve tried changing firewall privileges, no luck.
- I’ve tried changing countries, mixed results.
- I’ve tried setting connection limits in qBittorrent, no luck.
- I’ve updated my routers firmware, no luck.
My internet speeds are fine otherwise without VPN. Is it VPN accelerator or maybe Alternative Routing?
I don’t know what to do. Is it my ISP slowing it all down because they are detecting all of this traffic being routes through a VPN? Is it some configuration I haven’t thought of? I really need help. I’ve tried troubleshooting with ChatGPT but he just gives the most basic solutions ever that I’ve already tried.