
We recommend you turn on NordVPN’s kill switch before torrenting.

Sign-up for NordVPN and create your account (NordVPN offers a 30-day money-back guarantee that makes it easy to test the service before you commit).To get started torrenting on NordVPN, do the following:

VPNs also allow users to beat internet censorship in places like China and bypass geographic content blocks anywhere in the world. You can mask your IP address, evade ISP snooping and speed throttling, and still enjoy fast torrent speeds by using a VPN. Torrent networks can be fast when unthrottled, but do come with privacy concerns each individual connected to a torrent shares their IP address with everyone else downloading or uploading the same file. Each file sharer (seed) offers part of the file to download, which ultimately increases how quickly the file is downloaded (leeched).Īlthough torrenting is a legal form of internet traffic, many ISPs throttle all forms of P2P connections because of its popularity among internet pirates. File downloads are distributed across a large number of peers instead of sourced directly from a single server. Torrenting became popular in the 1990s and early 2000s because it allows users to significantly reduce time spent downloading files.
