VPN Services: ibVPN with Torrent Support

Why use a VPN for torrent?

Well, the first time I heard of VPN solutions that allow torrent traffic, my first reaction was that it is a tricky and very sensitive situation. I can understand why VPN providers do not allow torrent traffic since, at the end of the day, it’s really hard to differentiate legitimate from illegal torrent activities.

So I tried to figure out why one would want a VPN solution for his torrent connections. And the only thing I found out was that it would help any torrent users to “hide” behind the VPN provider for his connections. Why would one do that? You give the answer.
Anyway, since we want to do some reviews of different VPN solutions, it’s almost impossible not to try one of those VPN providers that allow torrent traffic. So I got torrent traffic enabled on my ibVPN package – though I needed to test it

My Invisible Browsing VPN review

As you probably know, I’m using Invisible Browsing VPN (AKA ibVPN) as my VPN solution. So I’m more than happy to have received a bonus torrent addon to my current package for testing purposes. So now that you’ve got full disclosure, let’s see how it worked.

So I already had mtorrent installed on my computer with some old torrent pending. First thing I tried was to launch my ibVPN then launch mtorrent hoping that it’ll resume, but it didn’t. To be frank, I didn’t really take the necessary time to troubleshoot it, so I decided to have a setup that is similar to a fresh installation. So I decided to install Vuze on that same computer. The idea was to import new torrent files into vuze, run ibVPN with torrent support and see what happens.

So I loaded Vuze with two 10 Mbps: I know this ain’t a big file, but I had to be able to quickly download some files so that I can complete the whole cycle: downloading the torrent file, completing the download then seeding. I got ibVPN running for the whole night with Vuze running in the background on my computer, then went sleeping.

In the morning, well, the two files completely downloaded to my computer, and I could even find that it was seeding. My ibVPN connection was still running and when I checked my VPN connection, it was still ON. From what I know of, ibVPN do not reconnect automatically if it got disconnected, so I can say that the ibVPN is quite stable even with torrent traffic going through it.

Just for the purpose of rechecking things, I repeated the experience the next night, and was delighted to see that Vuze was still seeding in the morning.

For reference purposes, I only have the US &CA package from ibVPN, but I guess the same results would be found for other countries. Anyway, if you ever test it under different situations, I’d be glad to hear about your experience. Feel free to share them in the comment section. And yes, I’ll also be glad to hear your thoughts on why you’d need a VPN for torrents.