Best VPNs for qBittorrent

There are two main ways of using a VPN together with a torrenting client, in this case qBittorent’s software. First, you can simply run the client without its built-in security settings, which are generally poor. The safety of most torrenting software comes from the fact that they have built-in proxy opportunities. The situation is different with VPN providers. A Virtual Private Network encrypts your traffic, greatly reducing the risks compared to a regular proxy. This is the first solution we advise: use the qBittorent client for file sharing only, leaving the issue of staying safe and hidden to a VPN, as it offers better service in these areas anyway. The second of our recommendations comes in handy when your VPN provider also offers proxies. Using the same type of proxy for both your VPN and qBittorent client is beneficial. Of course, this does not disclose the possibility of combining the various security settings of a VPN with the similarly versatile proxy selection of torrent software.

The best countries to connect to for P2P and torrenting are almost always the same for every file sharing service. If a certain country is friendly towards this more free vision of the internet, it will allow all such services within its borders in the vast majority of cases. For qBittorrent, the situation is not different from the rest. Countries like Switzerland, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands or Mexico are great to connect to. Switzerland’s policy towards P2P is especially recommended.

The problem in the case of qBittorent is that as you can observe on the figure, there are only three types of proxy available: SOCKS4, SOCKS5 and HTTP. Sadly, HTTPS authorization (or other, more rare types) are not included. However, you can assign additional authorization to all of these three. The client also offers IP filtering, signaling that this part of the software has not been updated for a while. Almost all firewalls today have IP filtering built into them, and individually assigning data to be filtered is not that necessary. There is only one disadvantage of using a VPN service. Encrypting data traffic requires some resources and therefore you connection speeds are a bit slower by default. We understand that this is not necessarily the best when you are downloading larger files, but some speed is a worthy sacrifice if you cannot gain access to your desired content otherwise.

Finally, to get to some more specifics, we would like to advise you on three VPN services that suit qBittorrent the best. First and foremost, since not all types of proxies are available here, we recommend two ways of P2P-ing. First, invest in a well-rounded VPN service that will do the hard work and protect your connection. Second, a VPN provider that offers at least similar or more extensive proxy support than qBittorrent.