I’m torn between Proton or Air. I’ve never used qBittorrent before and I’ve heard that Proton is faster but it also switches your server whenever you connect.
No one said anything about if one is more anonymous than the other, and anonymity is most important to me. If anyone can clear up what one is more anonymous, or if they are the same that would be extremely helpful.
Thanks.
There is no such thing as ‘more anonymous’ you either are anonymous (no logging and thus no paper trail to you) or not, go with a provider who doesn’t log (and is proven not to ideally).
I use Proton and don’t know Airvpn myself, but I’d assume they’re virtually the same in “anonymity” as long as they protect user data in the case of a subpoena. As long as you’re using a VPN that won’t give you up when under pressure, then your VPN choice doesnt matter much outside of whatever client-side features you want.
If you’re looking to choose a VPN, I’d always recommend Proton (primarily for built-in port forwarding, which is important for torrenting). A word of advice, too, since you’re new to all of this: bind your VPN to your torrenting client, and only use trusted sites.
I like the fact that ProtonVPN randomizes its ports for port forwarding, making it more anonymous than a permanent port forward, but I just got a year of ProtonVPN and sent an email to support today because I’m not getting torrent download speeds above 1 MB/s with canyouseeme showing the port as open, whereas I was getting 13 MB/s with Windscribe and AirVPN.
I’m using AirVPN I can’t comment on the “more private” but in terms of a VPN they are incredibly solid especially for torrenting. You can set your own port, you can even lock yourself to a certain server essentially giving yourself a static ip for that server. Overall really happy with them.
don’t feel save or anon just by using a VPN
i would never trust proton and air idk but way better to use i2p for torrenting…
Pay for mulvad 5uero for a month of piracy
thanks, i greatly appreciate this 
Maybe there are only a few seeders
But no port forwarding right?
AirVPN has port forwarding and you can get 3 years for like 70 euros
No, I tested it within minutes on the same two torrents and with multiple ProtonVPN servers. The same torrent would gain 12 MB/s the moment I switched to Windscribe.
Proton support suggested I try switching to OpenVPN or lowering maximum number of connections in the torrent settings, both of which are pretty undesirable. Might get a refund.
Interesting, for me it’s working perfectly and many others that I know
Yeah, it always worked well for me with the free servers, but something odd going on with P2P, maybe to do with using Wireguard config rather than the desktop app (they don’t make one for Arch Linux).
Also when qBittorrent is running, a browser speed test shows my DL speed dropping to 5 Mbps despite the torrent downloading only at around 500 KB/s, so some sort of throttling getting triggered that doesn’t happen with other VPNs.
I use Proton through wireguard on Arch as well. Never noticed any drop in torrent speed compared to before I made the switch
Interesting, maybe a difference in server then? I’m trying to pick US P2P servers in the West through their list at VPN server list: Secure Proton VPN servers in 110+ countries | Proton VPN. Are you using mostly default qBittorrent settings, without a decrease in maximum connections?
All default except for when I plan for an extensive session where I bother with setting up port forwarding.
I generally use Australian and New Zealand servers as they are geographically closest to me. I don’t get the best speeds for anything here but I’ve never had a torrent fail to saturate my connection (obviously provided there are actually enough people in the swarm to facilitate such data transfer)
Yeah that’s interesting, it kind of seems like something particular to my account for some reason then.
