Also asked them if torrenting legal stuff is allowed and they said no.
Hahahaha.
Call them again and ask the same question. Record their answer. Then keep on torrenting legal stuff.
If they’re dumb enough to come after you for something that is patently false, enjoy getting your retirement paid for by your ISP.
I don’t think that’s how it works; you don’t just somehow get money because your ISP is being stupid. Maybe if, through years of expensive legal battles, you could demonstrate some damages and get a favorable ruling, but not because you have a recording of some incompetent customer service rep saying “don’t torrent”.
Also, be careful about taking advice about recording people from random people on the internet. A responsible person should tell you that different states have different laws around potentially requiring you to inform other parties that you’re recording them. You’d feel pretty silly suing your ISP based on a recording that was actually illegally created.
Try Usenet instead. Or get a seedbox and let that do the torrenting for you. Either you have a DNS leak with your VPN, or they’re just guessing your torrenting because of how much traffic you’re using all the time. The DNS leak is more likely.
Dunno if anyone mentioned it, but if I had to guess, you have a DNS leak. Basically your DNS requests are going through your ISP instead of the VPN, resulting in them knowing where you’re going online anyway. Be sure to check for those DNS leaks and setup a custom one if your VPN doesn’t offer one. Don’t forget, DNS traffic over port 53 is also unencrypted, so unless you force those through the VPN, they could still know where you’re going.
If you are on VPN they cannot know shit. Only that you use a VPN… So either they are detecting the VPN and lying about what they know or you fucked up setting the VPN and the torrentina doesn’t go through the VPN.
They’ll still see upload/download volumes, speeds and patterns. Just not destinations. That alone could indicate torrent.
That could indicate a lot of things. It would be very difficult to distinguish a torrent from something like cloud folder sync. And that would still be a statistical guess. No ISP is going to go after customers because their VPN traffic is potentially torrent traffic.
Besides, even if they could detect that torrenting is taking place, they will not know what data is being transferred from and to where. It’s a meme, but torrents are actually sometimes used for non-copyright infringing data.
I was providing Linux distros and Machine Learning datasets some time ago, because official servers where slow. I’m the meme I guess
Check ipleak.net to see if there’s identifiable info coming through. Use their torrent check as well.
I torrent on a seedbox and then download to my local machine with rsync. ISP shouldn’t care about an ssh connection.
This is the way!
If you’re on qbit, did you bind your vpn to qbit?
Also your vpn might just be bad, what do you use?
I did not but it was a system wide VPN.
Start the VPN and connect to a location. Open qBittorrent. Go to Preferences, and then Advanced tab. Change Network interface to the VPN (usually its name, like “Mullvad”). Restart qBittorrent.
Basically when you bind it, if your vpn ever happens to turn off etc its gonna stop the download/upload
There’s an issue with your VPN.
What VPN service do you use?
I only heard good things about mullvad vpn.
Express VPN
It probably isn’t which one that’s the problem, it’s more likely your setup.
If you can, try disabling IPv6 entirely, turn it off in your operating system and your router. I’d bet you’re leaking past the VPN that way.
Wouldn’t advise turning off ipv6. We are probably getting near the point where some public services will disable or offer v4 as only best effort, and when this happens, your connectivity will be broken for certain things if you disable v6. Heck, it’s to the point now where all my home hosted services are v6 only.
The better solution is to just get a VPN that supports ipv6 like airvpn or mullvad. I think pia disables ipv6 while the tunnel is up, which is better than disabling ipv6 altogether.
To validate the tunnel is working properly you can use something like this.
There is also a Torrent Address detection section, that when you activate it, will provide a magnet link that will show your ip to ensure that it is tunneled properly.
Dude, it’ll be a longer time than this guy is going to be on his ISP before he’ll need to worry about ipv6.
OP - feel free to disable it, IMO.
Seriously; they’ve been talking about v6 for like 3 decades now. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Most ISPs already use it, what are you on about
My ISP routinely has problems on IPv4. Even while it’s fully operational with very low ping, IPv4 performance is poor compared to IPv6. Add in NAT, port forwarding and all the mess IPv4 brings into the picture I can’t believe people are still advocating for disabling IPv6.
