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Thanks to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/ober found that ipleak.net can be used to check if you VPN is leaking your IP before proceeding with torrenting.
And also using Qbittorrent to tie the client to the VPN by going to Tools > Preferences > Advanced and changing network interface to your VPN.
Somewhat related, you can use iknowwhatyoudownload.com to check and see if your IP address was part of a torrent download recently
This is great, thank you.
Nothing for me. Not sure how historical their data is but I've been using a VPN (exclusively) for about a year and a half and about 6 months ago switched to a seedbox.
That is pretty cool. I just checked it from my cellular connection. Obviously it’s not stuff that I downloaded, it’s still cool to see.
That is pretty cool. I just checked it from my cellular connection. Obviously it’s not stuff that I downloaded, it’s still cool to see.
That's because you are not the only one who is using that ip address, generally you share it with other people. But if you download something, you'll definitely see that downloaded thing among others.
I’m excited to check this out when I get home. I wonder what will show up. Hopefully nothing haha. But we often have guests that stay for a week at a time. My building may also put me behind a cgnat.
I used ipleak when setting up my seedbox, super cool resource
For some reason i don't know ipleak.net won't load for me. These work too though: https://ipleak.org/, https://browserleaks.com/ip.
huh, works for me, detects my vpn. Is it blocked in your country or something?
I can't reach it on my Windows 11 computer when the vpn is turned on, but can reach it using Windows when the vpn is turned off (i tried servers in Europe, Americas, Asia).
But on my linux computer i can reach it with the vpn on or off (same vpn company, login, servers). So ... weird.
If you use over@lemmy.dbzer0.com to link a user, lemmy will instead create a link for the instance you are currently using.
What am I looking for on there to know if my VPN is working as intended or not?
While connected to the VPN you shouldn't be able to see your real IP address. There is a torrent magnet link near the bottom left of the page that you can download and run on your client (qbit, transmission, etc) which will check whether that's leaking anything too.
I like to use this. It generates a custom torrent. Then shows the IPs connected to it. Whatever it shows should not be your public/home IP https://torguard.net/checkmytorrentipaddress.php
Thanks. What results am I looking for to make sure it works?
I wish that sabnzbd had the same feature where you can force it to only function over the vpn interface. Such a nice feature to have.
I get a big red exclamation point and "The address 140...** is not in the database" Is this a sign that I have NordVPN set up correctly or not? Thanks for mentioning ipleak.net!