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Old 2022-10-25, 11:32 AM
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Firewalled workarounds- OVPN $5/month and others

VPNs with good connectivity with TTD's tracker (see thread 187203 as this may not matter):
OVPN
Torguard
Windscribe

Read this thread about being firewalled, especially note the TLDRs:
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/...d.php?t=187203

I've been trying OVPN and that's been fun and interesting getting working. It's $5/month for the yearly plan.
Its Wireguard seems to be a bust, but OpenVPN is working. These are the settings I'm using in OVPN now:

General
ActivateIPv6 - disabled

Protocol
Connect using Wireguard - disabled
Connect using OpenVPN - enabled
Connect using TCP443 - disabled
Activate compression - disabled
Use recommended Encryption suite - enabled
Use Wintun driver - enabled

The interface used on my box for OpenVPN is Network Connection 3, and for Wireguard it's ovpn-wg. Yours may be different. You have to experiment with OVPN settings and watch what it does in Network Connections after connecting to a VPN server.

I'm not sure how good their privacy is with qBittorrent set to use Any Interfaces. You may want to bind to whatever network interface OVPN uses- that's in qBittorrent's Advanced Options->Network Interface.
https://www.ovpn.com/en/pricing

Make sure to forward a TCP/UDP port in OVPN:
https://www.ovpn.com/en/faq/functionality/opening-ports

Other useful stuff:
Uncheck use UPnP/NAT-PMP port forwarding in your torrent program.

To seed, set your torrent program port for incoming connections the same as the one you forwarded in OVPN.

For the mystery popups- after install you'll have something like "allow public connections?" You have to click yes or else no one can connect to you over the internet. IVPN (in Windows 7) will ask you each time you connect to a VPN server what type of network connection it is. Click "Work".

The 64bit version of OVPN WILL NOT install on Windows 7 64bit. You have to use the 32bit version of OVPN. Click yes to the driver warning. Reboot. This may not be an issue on Windows 10 or 11

They have MacOS and Linux versions too. Please post your experience if you try those.

Last edited by xavier242; 2023-10-15 at 04:41 PM. Reason: IVPN discontinued port forwarding 2023-09-30
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