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Hmm, you’re right. I just looked for the same article and I guess I was misremembering the content of the Proton VPN KB article.

Thanks for the comment. They have information on their site about how to set up various clients, including qBittorrent, to update the Proton VPN port. The issue is, it doesn’t work, so every time I reboot (seldom as this is a server machine with services running), I just have to update the connection port for qBt. I don’t doubt the port for both the VPN and qBt are the issue, but I also know that’s usually the first thing that gets pointed out when specifying trouble with some network-based, port-opening software.

I’ll take a look at my settings more in-depth tonight after work. Thanks for the suggestion and the comment!

Appreciate the comment. I’ll confirm my uPnP settings in the firewall and client when I get home from work. I think they’re both enabled and Proton VPN has the port forward so that isn’t the hangup. This issue goes all the way back to my Limewire days, when torrents were just getting big and being targeted heavily by the RIAA and MPAA. I use IRC for most of my searches and only use torrents for hard to find things. I’d love to see stuff like Linux distros, the internet archives, and other seemingly important (legal) causes, if I can get them to work consistently.

And I gotta say, I love the attempted support by you and others. Peace, love, and humptiness, forever!

With paid sub, I believe, you can use Proton VPN with their torrent servers including ports they forward. It changes every time, however. I think it’s just me and Windows. I think I’m nearing the time to switch my daily driver to Linux and, if successful, I’ll move my server to a Linux distro soon after, as well!

Not a problem. I use IRC and Usenet (in the past) for most of my searches, but some things are too old to be on those and in any condition to work after download. Proton VPN provides specific servers for port forwards (maybe only on paid subs), but that makes no difference when I provide it to the client. The search for a fix continues!

I appreciate the suggestion. I have followed their guides, set up Proton VPN with their torrent servers involving ports to forward. I updated that port in the client and it still just sits there, staring at me with a 0.3 seed rate. I keep them up for at least 30-days (to appease my private tracker’s 2:1 seeds or 14-day offering) to no avail. I keep trying different things and just kind of accept it, for now. Maybe when I move to Linux as my daily driver I’ll have better luck in that field!

You and I are in similar boats, except I only gave Windows 11 a single install on my personal gaming rig before going back to 10. With the threat of 10 going EoL, I’ll be forced to move to Linux soon, myself. After working in PC and Windows troubleshooting for over 20-years all my foyers into Linux have been met with self-imposed damage resulting in an abandoment of Linux. This happened with spare computers or server setups since Windows Vista.

I’m nervous about the future of my gaming addiction, but will not use Windows 11.

I would love to seed but I can never seem to get my client and network setup to do it with any torrent I’ve tried. I’ve attempted everything I can find online, across different ISPs, computer builds, and OS instances. Can’t ever seem to get it working between all the different configurations.

Now I’m running a pfSense firewall on a FIOS connection, with Windows 10, and qBittorrent behind Proton VPN. Still haven’t been able to get even freeleech torrents to seed. I’ve tried a lot of clients and ports over the years. I think it may be something I’m doing wrong!

Dude, Octodad in the random arm-leg mode is so fucking funny. My wife and I had so much fun with that game. Too bad the game is so short!