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Torrents are unique in how the tech works, in comparison to FTP or P2P. To download a torrent, you connect to a tracker, which contains a listing within it's swarm of seeds and peers. Each seed and peer uses a torrent application to feed the torrent to the swarm. However, approximately 4 in 5 torrent clients block anonymous inbound connections, and thus prevent you from connecting to them to feed from them. There is no way around this, and its entirely dependent on what torrent clients seeds/peers happen to be using within any given tracker. As such, you'd rarely see more than maybe 20-40% of your normal speeds while connected to any anonymous connection in torrents, due to this fact.

With that said, this likely isn't the sole cause of speed or connectivity issues in torrents. This is a very common issue with torrent programs; many require port forwarding to be enabled, in order for them to work correctly (uTorrent, for example). While we can't help you configure your torrent client, we can certainly tell you how to get the port information you need to configure it.

The only way to get a port assigned for use with your torrent client is to use our application to connect. You need to right-click on the Private Internet Access application in your system tray, and choose Settings, then click Advanced. Put a checkmark in Port Forwarding, save it, and connect to one of the port forwarding-capable servers:

CA Toronto
CA Montreal
Netherlands
Switzerland
Sweden
France
Germany
Romania
Israel


While connected to one of these gateways, wait approximately 30-60 seconds, then hover over the PIA application's icon in your system tray; you'll get a small tool-tip window come up, which will include a port number. This randomly-assigned port is what you need to enter into your torrent client, to get it to function correctly.

In addition to using port forwarding, you can also try changing the ports the VPN uses to connect; this can help with a variety of issues, including improving overall connection speed:
https://support.privateinternetacces...h-the-PIA-App-

Which OS are you using?

What is the encryption set to in the application settings?

Does the browsing issue occur on multiple web browsers?

Difficulty with browsing is generally a DNS issue.

Avoiding this is quite simple. If you statically assign your DNS settings on your network adapter to use a public DNS (our DNS servers - 209.222.18.222 and 209.222.18.218), you should be able to browse again. If you require steps on how to make this change, please refer to one of these articles:

Windows: https://support.privateinternetacces...ngs-in-Windows

Mac: https://support.privateinternetacces...ettings-in-OSX

Android (Wifi only): https://support.privateinternetacces...oid-Wifi-only-

iOS: https://support.privateinternetacces...iOS-Wifi-only-

Linux (using Network Manager) - https://support.privateinternetacces...twork-Manager-

If our DNS is already configured there and you still have the same issue, you could also try another DNS in place of ours:

Level 3 (209.244.0.3 and 209.244.0.4)

Please ensure the following is configured in your router, to allow unimpeded access to our services through that device:

The following ports are allowed and unrestricted:
OpenVPN uses UDP: 53, 1194, 8080 and 9201 TCP: 80, 110, 443
L2TP uses UDP 500, 1701, and 4500
PPTP uses TCP 1723 or Protocol 47 (GRE)
VPN passthrough is enabled for all protocols
Port forwarding is not enabled
QoS is not enabled