Do I need a VPN with a seedbox?
Hello everyone,
I'm considering purchasing a seedbox, but I'm a total noob so I'm reading lots of tutorials to grasp the subject. My main concern is privacy. From what I gathered, a seedbox is a good solution for building up ratio (especially on private trackers) without keeping your computer on 24/7 (bandwith is another point). Everywhere I go seedbox and VPN are presented as alternatives, the latter being your primary option for a safe internet browsing, while a seedbox is an ideal tool for torrenting. Correct me if I'm wrong, please. What I don't understand is why many seedbox companies provide a complimentary VPN service with every package: is it, indeed, a complimentary gift or do I need to use it as well to hide every trace of my activity? Isn't it redundant? Won't it slow me? I mainly download torrents from private trackers. Please, help me fill the gaps, I'm a bit confused.
Thanks!
VPN with a seedbox is a must
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Artillery
Hello everyone,
I'm considering purchasing a seedbox, but I'm a total noob so I'm reading lots of tutorials to grasp the subject. My main concern is privacy. From what I gathered, a seedbox is a good solution for building up ratio (especially on private trackers) without keeping your computer on 24/7 (bandwith is another point). Everywhere I go seedbox and VPN are presented as alternatives, the latter being your primary option for a safe internet browsing, while a seedbox is an ideal tool for torrenting. Correct me if I'm wrong, please. What I don't understand is why many seedbox companies provide a complimentary VPN service with every package: is it, indeed, a complimentary gift or do I need to use it as well to hide every trace of my activity? Isn't it redundant? Won't it slow me? I mainly download torrents from private trackers. Please, help me fill the gaps, I'm a bit confused.
Thanks!
Hello, I definitely recommend using a VPN (any kind of it, even a free one will do) with a seedbox as well. The problem is that an ISP snoops not only the traffic but DNS request in first place! Try to change your default ISPs DNS settings in your router and your connection speed will be cut down to a few kbs.. Your seedbox has an IP. And if you make a direct connection to it with SSH, SFTP etc. (No matter now securely the traffic is encrypted) your ISP is able to see that you have connected to an IP associated with a seedbox. Its not rocket science to figure out your intentions. And send an email with a "letter of happiness". (lol). When you connect to a seedbox via VPN your ISP can only see that all traffic goes to a VPN server, hence it can't figure out your true intentions. And your SSH/SFTP tunnel will go pretty well inside a VPN tunnel if you set up a VPN correctly to route all traffic through it (it is about checking a certain box in the network configuration window). Lots of users fire up a VPN connection and think they are safe forgetting to do that simple thing)). Well the bottom line is that you need a VPN anyway. And A VPN+seedbox is a bullet proof solution against copyright strikes.