this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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I have noticed that healthy torrents stall when the ISP closes the port I was using in the end. Several torrent clients have the option to check if the port is open or closed, and also another option to randomize the port at startup.
QBittorrent and Transmission have an option to anonymize or have the data encrypted, and that seems to make a difference for me when downloading using my employers ISP.
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"why pay for a vpn to hide my ip when I can just use an ip that isn't mine" --that dude, probably