The strict no-logs policy is one of the strongest features of their service and makes it an excellent option for torrenting. Setting up these clients with Socks5 proxy is rather easy if you follow the setup tutorials.
As NordVPN is available across all the major software platforms, you can fire up your torrent client of choice on any platform and begin torrenting. To setup up your torrent client for use with NordVPN, you need to change the connection settings on your client.
Under the connection settings, choose Socks5 from the Proxy Server type dropdown menu. In the tool, click on the Show advanced options link below the Select country dropdown menu.
Click on Select server type and choose P2P from the list. Next, click on Select security protocol and choose Socks5. You should now see a suitable recommended server on the page. Simply copy the server address and paste it into the Proxy textbox on your Torrent client. Thus, your torrenting activities are completely hidden and cannot be discovered by your ISP or any third party.
Pretty decent speeds actually. NordVPN does not allow torrent traffic on all its servers. Instead, they offer optimized servers dedicated to P2P traffic. These servers can be found easily in the software clients. If you connect to a regular server while torrenting, the application will redirect you to the P2P optimized NordVPN servers in Canada or the Netherlands. Best Filelinked Alternatives in Recent posts. Kodi Featured Kodi News.
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At its most basic, you can scroll to the country you need, click a button and connect to the best server in that location. Very easy. These work much the same as the regular list, so for example you can click P2P and allow the software to choose the fastest server for you, or browse the full list and choose something manually.
The Favorites system has gone, replaced by an extended Recent list of your 10 most recently chosen locations. That's probably going to be enough for most people, but we're struggling to see why the app couldn't support both a Favorites and Recent list. In previous reviews we've commented on slow connection times from the Windows client, but that's improved significantly.
OpenVPN connect times are fair at seconds, and NordLynx typically cuts this down to seconds. The client handles the rest of the connection process very well, updating the interface to display its status and the current location, and using Windows desktop notifications to tell you when the VPN is turned on or off. Switching servers is easy, too. If you're connected already, you don't have to close that connection before you can open another.
Just click any server and the client will automatically disconnect and reconnect to your choice. Right click the NordVPN system tray icon and you'll see a list of your recent connections, making it easy to access them again. That's a real convenience which could mean you rarely need to open the full app.
Tap the Disconnect button and you'll find options to pause your connection for 5, 10 or 15 minutes. If you need to quickly use a website which doesn't work with the VPN, click 'Pause', choose your preferred interval, and the client then disconnects. When you're finished, hitting 'Resume' restores the VPN, but if you forget, the client reconnects automatically after your chosen period. There's a small usability annoyance here, as disconnecting now takes two clicks you must now click Disconnect, ignore the pause intervals and click Disconnect again.
But otherwise, this is a welcome addition which should reduce the chance that you accidentally leave yourself unprotected for long periods of time.
The Settings dialog has some unusual plus points. It doesn't just allow you to launch NordVPN on startup, for example.
You can also have the client automatically connect whenever you access an insecure wireless network, and it's possible to specify a particular country or region you'd like to use. An internet kill switch blocks all access to the internet unless you're connected to the VPN, while a separate app kill switch closes particular apps if the VPN drops your torrent app, for instance.
We tried various ways of forcibly closing the VPN, but in all cases the client correctly blocked our internet traffic and warned us of the problem. The only small omission is that the client doesn't have an 'auto-reconnect' option, leaving users to restore their connections manually.
Most users should probably leave this alone, but if you know what you're doing, switching DNS could improve browsing performance, help block access to malicious websites, or impart other benefits. Even better, you can add multiple DNS servers and switch between them as and when required. A bonus 'Obfuscated Servers' feature claims that it may help you connect even in countries and locations which block VPNs.
And there's also the option to block ads and malicious websites via NordVPN's CyberSec, which is turned off by default. Put it all together, and although NordVPN's Windows client has some issues, it's generally well-presented, easy to use, and a comfortable place to view and control your VPN status.
Incidentally, you might also want to check out our pick of the best Windows 10 VPNs. The NordVPN Android app is one of the most popular around, with more than 10 million downloads, and an impressive 4. Setup follows much the same route as any other service.
Click Install, the app downloads, and you can launch it with a tap. The app opens with the top part of the screen displaying your available locations on a world map, the lower part being reserved for a server list. You already know the basic operating principles here, as they're the same as any other map you've ever used: pinch to zoom in on the area with the location you need, drag to pan around, tap a location marker to connect to it.
But it's just not very practical. You might have to zoom in a long way to see the area you need. Do that on Europe, say, and you could be faced with 40 location markers but no text captions, so if you want to choose Macedonia, you'll need to know exactly where it is on the map.
And switching somewhere else in the world might require zooming out, panning around and zooming back in. While this isn't difficult, you're still spending more time navigating the app interface than is ideal. Swiping up gets you an alphabetical list of countries, and you can scroll down to the US or anywhere else , tap it, and immediately get connected to the best server in that country.
If you need more control over your location choice, tapping a Menu button displays the full list of locations in that country. You can expand locations to list all their individual servers, too, although as there's no server load or other information, this probably won't help you very much. A smart auto-connect feature gives you all kinds of options.
For example, you could set up the app to automatically connect on all Wi-Fi hotspots apart from your home and other trusted locations, ensuring you only turn on the VPN when you know you need it. The features keep coming with the ability to set a custom DNS server, split tunneling to disable the VPN for specific apps, and even tapjacking protection you get an alert if a malicious app overlays a window on your screen to trick you into performing an action. The app isn't perfect, then, and we're not sure the map element of the interface adds a lot.
But otherwise, it's a likeable and feature-packed piece of software which effortlessly outperforms most of the competition. Find it in the app store, install, open, log in and you're ready to go. The app initially presents you with the same slightly awkward map interface as the other clients, although the iOS developer has done a marginally better job of implementing it.
You can't zoom out as far as the Android app allows, which means the individual location markers are never left overlapping and hiding each other.
And when the map is displayed, the lower panel reduces to just enough space for a Quick Connect button, leaving the maximum screen real-estate for map details. There's still no portrait interface, though, which could make real difference. We still think a map isn't the best way to switch between locations, and if you agree, swiping up displays the regular country list. If the VPN provider keeps connecition or activity logs, they could voluntarily share your previous connection history what IP addresses you used.
If the VPN keeps no logs , this is impossible. There is no complicated setup required to torrent anonymously with a VPN. Then just choose a server location we recommend the Netherlands. On this site, we also recommend using a zero-log Socks5 proxy as a way to anonymize your torrents. The downside is using a proxy to anonymize your torrents requires manual setup in your torrent client of choice.
Also, some torrent clients will route peer connections outside the proxy tunnel bad. Well, Tor is actually a network of layered Socks5 proxies. So instead of using a single proxy server, Tor will route your traffic through 3 proxies, with bit encryption on each layer. The main advantage of Tor vs. Most Socks5 proxy services offer no encryption whatsoever. Encryption prevents torrent throttling. It also stops your Internet Provider from monitoring your torrent traffic.
But Tor still has all the insecurities of any Socks5 proxy setup for torrents some peer connections may be routed outside the proxy tunnel, exposing your real IP address.
And this setup offers much stronger encryption than Tor and is much faster than Tor.
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