Suddenly nothing downloading through VPN connection

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Everything was working alright (besides downloads being incredibly slow through VPN connection) until a few days ago. I haven’t changed any settings recently. qBittorrent is connected through my VPN Interface. qBittorrent is still an allowed app through my firewall. I use a lesser known VPN called VeePN which has worked well the last 4 years for me.

All new torrents get stuck on “Downloading metadata”. It finds some hosts and peers but doesn’t actually start anything. If I switch to “Any Interface” and turn my VPN off, it downloads just fine at fast speed. Turn it back on mid-way through a download: it stops completely even with pausing/resuming the torrent or restarting the app.

I tried uninstalling/reinstalling qBittorrent. I tried downgrading the version also. I tried going into my router settings and setting up the listening port as port forwarding and then enabled the port through my firewall. Nothing helped.

Seems like it’s just not connecting to the trackers when I go to the trackers list, labelling them as “Not working” with reasons such as “timed out”, “The requested address is not valid in its context”, “skipping tracker announce (unreachable)” etc. When I turn VPN off: All trackers are found as “Working” and downloads resume as normal.

Any suggestions? My VPN app is up to date with very few settings even available to tweak and again, I haven’t changed any settings.

EDIT: I also contacted VeePN customer support 4 or 5 days ago and while they were extremely quick at responding and updating me nearly every day (even if it was just “We’re still looking into the issue!”), they have thus far been stumped. Nobody on Reddit or even other forums throughout the interweb seem to have any direct resolution.

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Mine as well, exactly as yours. I haven’t turned off the (popular brand) VPN to see if it’s the VPN causing the issue or not. Every torrent just says downloading metadata as well. Speed with the VPN on, is fine. I uninstalled/installed Q-bit with zero changes. I’m lost as well.

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When this happened to me using ProtonVPN, I figured out quitting qbitorrent through task manager and then starting it again whenever the VPN changed servers made it connect again and it would start downloading again. Does that work for you?

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Something similar happened to me about a week ago. My problem was that I was using proton vpn (though openvpn) in TCP protocol, switched to UDP and now it works just fine.

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Have you tried installing one of the two previous versions of qBittorrent?

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Unfortunately doesn’t work for me.

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Just curious if you’ve had this issue with Proton:
QBit loads up and starts working fine. But if I use a web browser, the QBit connections “die” and the web browser “cannot find server.”

Have you had this issue? Any idea?
The QBit logs don’t go into connection detail. I’m trying to find the Proton logs.

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I did uninstall the latest version and installed the previous version. Didn’t help me.

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I haven’t had this issue as I use Split Tunneling to only route qbitorrent traffic through the VPN.