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How do I know whether qBittorrent is using the proxy I specify? I entered a socks5 proxy which is rated at 400kb/s according to the website I got it from, but qBittorrent easily maxes the 900KiB/s speed that I have set for the global download limit. qBittorrent seems to do this regardless of the proxy I specify.

Monitoring PeerBlock, no known anti-P2P organizations seem to attempt to connect to me, but my computer attempts to connect to them, although the connection is refused. PeerBlock displays my router's IP as the source. I have never seen any proxy I specify displayed.

Side note:

According to speedtest, I have around 10Mbps, although I'm pretty sure I'm registered for 20Mbps, download and 5Mbps upload. What would be a good download and upload global limit? I want to achieve speeds as fast as possible, but I don't want to monopolize the bandwidth. Other people use my connection for browsing, and I like to use it for other things including browsing, streaming high-quality videos, and playing games. I think my ISP is more likely to throttle me when I maximize my bandwidth, too. Currently, I have download limited to 900Kib/s, and I think I left the upload limit at default.

I think proxy works for TCP but not for uTP. So you need to disable uTP to only use TCP connection.

Do you mean the 'enable bandwidth management (uTP)' option? I disabled it. My seeds remained at 4 while my speeds stayed around 250-350 KiB/s. When I turned uTP back on, my seeds and speeds significantly increased. However, in both cases known anti-P2P organizations attempted to connect to my IP address. The proxy didn't seem to do anything in either case despite being labeled anonymous.

Yes, if you want the proxy to hide your IP uTP must be disabled since proxy settings does not apply to it. I tried for myself using Tor and SOCKS5 and it worked as I expected it to. TCP connections was behind proxy while uTP was my real IP.

A great tool to check for yourself is http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/ it has everything you need in that area.

Good Luck.

Hi UsL,

I've always left uTP on so I tried the processhacker tool, and maybe I'm not reading it correctly, I'm no expert, but I didn't see any other IPs besides the proxy one. I didn't see any difference in the results with uTP on or off.

The only odd thing I saw was this:
qbittorrent.exe (8328), 3dns-1.adobe.com, 64067, 3dns-1.adobe.com, 64066, TCP, Established,
Any idea what that is?