There are already several posts on this topic, but I wanted to have a more up to date answer. The secure wifi uses my personal school account to sign in so that might not be the best idea, however the guest wifi is open to everyone so that may be a better idea. I also know to use a VPN and bind my torrenting client to the VPN. Anything else I should know? Or is the entire idea dead in the water? I’ve pirated before but never with several thousand dollars on the line…
Use a VPN all the time, not only when you need it.
If you want to buy a little insurance for your self look into getting a seed box. Then you can download from the seed box with a VPN over sftp. I would think that would be pretty hard to determine what you’re doing but I don’t know enough about it to speak confidently one way or the other.
At my uni you get kicked out if they catch you doing that, so I wouldnt risk doing it on school wifi. I dont know how it is at your uni but at mine they get suspicious when you use a VPN. I would just pirate at a public wifi (Café ect.).
Who the fuck touches a public network without a vpn?
Well as long as you don’t do anything illegal according to this guy there is nothing to worry about (obviously if you use uni certificates to use the network they can either way decrypt your traffic).
Dumb fucks.
Get a seedbox. It’s 100% safe
only thing in the universe/multiverse that is 100% certain…
is humans overestimating certainty.
Ding. This is the answer
VPN worked for me and others all through uni, adding in the seed box layer seems even better.
Make sure you bind your qbittorrent network interface to the vpn interface and check for any leaks. Test it by suddenly turning vpn off midway through to see if anything leaks.
I’ve found the best way to check for leaks with torrenting is by using ipleak.net. They have a feature which will tell you the address it sees you torrenting from. Super handy.
Yep, this is what I use as well
With a known-safe linux iso, to be clear!
Yeah, download legal iso materials during your test
I wouldn’t risk it.
my only advice, don’t do it without a VPN, proton, ivpn or mullvad
with ivpn and proton, be sure to have some other stuff open on the same device to make some extra noise to help prevent fingerprinting the traffic
with mullvad, enable DAITA, matter of fact, use DAITA whenever you’re using mullvad, it makes things a bit slower, but it’s worth it to not have to worry about any AI finding a pattern in your traffic
As long as you have a verified setup going over a VPN you should be OK. Same goes for a residential ISP since they have your address, contact and billing info. Just make sure they can’t see what ur doing and it should be Gucci
If you use MAC randomization for the guest network AND set up your VPN right you should have playable deniability. Just never admit to it and you should be chilling.
And by setting your VPN right you mean activating full tunneling, blocking connections if the tunnel happens to disconnect, enforcing DNS through the tunnel … did I miss something?
Also make sure in the torrent client that you have the correct network adapter set. In QBittorrent (windows) it’s under advanced. Then when you are torrenting something you can check your network traffic and on Windows you can see where it’s going and make sure it’s going through your VPN.
If you can use a VPN, do it. They probably won’t block them.
VPN should be enough. Just make sure you bind your torrent client to the VPN interface. If you want to be extra careful, use a seedbox or a debrid service.
Seedbox or vpn with remoting into a home sever would be safest
Guest network would be best as any large downloads can be tracked back to your account.
Randomize Mac address
And for overkill, try to randomize which wifi node you are using to be less predictable.
i don’t even know what the it dept thought when i was in university and napster/kazaa were just becoming a thing and people went from 56k at home to t1.
Honestly if you are doing only torrents, then using a debrid service works great. I have tried VPN, Usenet, and debrid. You copy the magnet link or upload the .torrent file and if it’s a popular file, it will already be downloaded and you can download from them immediately. Otherwise you wait a little bit for them to download it. Doing this does not require VPN and typically it is hosted at a fast server and will download as fast as your internet can go. It’s 3€ a month which is less than a good VPN anyway.
