Qbittorrent running incredibly slowly when connected to NordVPN

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I did some research and followed a few guides, namely this one, but I’m having major issues.

I have a gigabit ethernet connection. Right now I’m trying to torrent something with around 200 seeds and 350 connections total and I’m downloading at… 15 KB/s. Which is insanely slow.

On a different torrent, I seem to top out at about 1 mbps. Better, but still very slow compared to torrents not on a VPN.

Settings:

NordVPN -

VPN protocol set manually to OpenVPN (UDP) - I’ve also tried this with NordLynx too. NordLynx is faster but still overall less than 1 MB/s. Kill switch off, split tunneling off, custom DNS off.

Qbittorrent -

Protocol is TCP and uTP. Port is open and manually set to 61443. Use UPnP/NAT-PMP off. No proxy server set. Enable Local Peer Discovery disabled. Anonymous mode on. Network interface set to NordLynx in advanced options.

Windows settings -

Network properties set to only NordVPN LightWeight Firewall and Internet Protocol Version 4 for all ethernet connections and the NordLynx one too.

I’m at my wits end. Does anyone know what else I could do here? Am I being throttled or something?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Edit: I switched to Mullvad and the problem appears fixed! I am now getting 5+ MB/s. NordVPN is throttling traffic for torrents.

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Pick a different P2P Server in your country or a near one

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  1. Reboot if you haven’t already
  2. Try obfuscated servers or P2P
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I haven’t used QBittorent in a while but try these setting under options if you haven’t already:

Under Speed: Untick: Apply rate limit to uTP protocol

Under Bit Torrent Tick: Enable DHT and Enable PeX

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lol, had Nord for the longest time - thought 3Mb/s max down was normal.
It’s not.

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I had this issue once with Nord I uninstalled/re-installed and the problem went away

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I’ve been choosing one that is within 100 miles of me which is the closest. Others just get slower.

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I’ve rebooted already after updating windows, and I’ve been connected to P2P servers this whole time. I don’t see any option for obfuscated servers though?

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What VPN are you using instead?

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What provider did you switch to?

Edit: I switched to Mullvad and the problem appears fixed! I am now getting 5+ MB/s. NordVPN is throttling traffic for torrents.

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Yup applied all those already!

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Yea. Just got Mullvad and I’m seeing 5+ MB/s constantly.

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I found another issue that was choking my speed, and that was that I had my upload limit set very low. Apparently qbittorrent chokes your speed if you do that. I took off the limit and now I get 15-30 MiB/s constantly!

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Hmmm I’m not sure! I didn’t experience that issue. Are you using Qbittorrent? You’ll have to set your upload limits in the settings.

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It’s a tick box choice in Settings/advanced

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Did Nord throttle direct downloads? Bitport.io is a website that downloads torrents for you and then you can download the files directly.

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I got Vypr - bailed on Nord with 18 months left on term - 10-12 Mb/s down when the torrent is strong. $60 for 3 years.

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Or to be more accurate you were choking your download speed because your download torrents could not communicate ie. yes I have downloaded that part, now who another part

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Hmm ok I tried that, but it took my speedtest from 900 Mbps to around 20 Mbps and terrible ping. So that’s a no-go.

Edit: I switched to Mullvad and the problem appears fixed! I am now getting 5+ MB/s. NordVPN is throttling traffic for torrents.

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I switched to Mullvad and the problem appears fixed! I am now getting 5+ MB/s. NordVPN is throttling traffic for torrents.