uTorrent VPN Speed issue with PIA

1. Click on our icon in the System Tray or Menu Bar2. Disconnect from the VPN.

   3. Right click the icon for the VPN again, and click on Settings

   4. Click on the Advanced button

   5. If the Connection type is set to TCP, change it to UDP. If it already says UDP, do not make any changes to this setting yet.

   6. Change the remote port to 9201, click Save, and reconnect. See if
   the issue persists.

   6.1 If the issue persists, disconnect from the VPN, change the remote port to 1194, save, and reconnect. See if the issue persists.

   6.2 If the issue persists, disconnect from the VPN, change the remote port to 8080, save, and reconnect. See if the issue persists.

   6.3 If the issue persists, disconnect from the VPN, change the remote port to 53, save, and reconnect. See if the issue persists.

   7. If this does not help, please go back to the Advanced Settings

   8. Disconnect from the VPN, and change the protocol to TCP

   9. Change the remote port to 80, click Save, and reconnect. See if the issue persists.

   10.1 If the issue persists, disconnect from the VPN, change the remote port to 110, save, and reconnect. See if the issue persists.

   10.2 If the issue persists, disconnect from the VPN, change the remote port to 443, save, and reconnect. See if the issue persists.

   11. If you have been unable to connect this far, set the local port option to 53, and try each of the settings above again.

   12. Save and then reconnect.

   For our service to work best with uTorrent, we recommend the following:

   Please go into the Options Menu, and click on Connection:
   We want to ensure that “Enable UPnP Port Mapping”, “Enable NAT-PMP Port Mapping”, and “Randomize port each start” are all unchecked. If you are using Port Forwarding in our Application, please enter the forwarded port in the “Port used for incoming connections” field.

   If your main goal for torrents is speed, and sharing back to the swarm, please do not enable the Proxy server options, as this will slow down your downloads, and inhibit sharing back to the swarm.

   Please also click on the BitTorrent Tab, and uncheck “Enable Bandwidth Management [uTP]”
   For Maximum security, please uncheck “Enable DHT Network” and “Enable DHT for new torrents” These options may lead to having less seeds, but is more secure, and anonymous.

   Many users find they need to enable port forwarding in our VPN software in order to get the best connectivity and speeds with torrent clients.

   In order to enable port forwarding in our client, enter the Settings area for our client, and click the Advanced button. Enable port forwarding and select one of the following gateways:

   Netherlands
   Switzerland
   CA North York
   CA Toronto
   Romania
   Sweden
   France
   Germany

   After enabling port forwarding and re-connecting to one of the above gateways, please hover your mouse over the System Tray or Menu Bar icon for our client to reveal the tool-tip which will display the port number. You can then enter this port into your software, like Utorrent or another torrent client.

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Plex showed Server could connect to cloud… but didn’t work. I setup port forwarding on the router to the Plex server. Started working well.