Anyone experience odd behavior uploading with PureVPN on this site?
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I uploaded a file and have just started using PureVPN. Their tech. support solved the problem I had of not being able to upload at all, but now I can only upload to 1 or 2 leechers at a time, when there are many more than that. Has anyone else experienced this last problem? I don't have that much experience using VPNs. (Also, IDK if it's a problem, but I switched VPN servers a couple of times in my attempt to get a better connection – now my torrent shows 3 seeders when in fact I'm the only one).
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Yes… Being a former PureVPN customer, I can shed some light on this. Only PureVPN's servers in Brunei, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Turkey are permitted for P2P traffic... Just a heads up.
Beyond that though, PureVPN by default does not do port mapping or port forwarding. This is a separate service that you must purchase from them to be able to have the correct ports forward through to your computer through the VPN. Without these ports forwarded correctly, you enlist in the tracker as a passive node, which bumps you to the bottom of the peer priority for some reason I do not quite fully understand. The result is that you will experience little to no upload traffic until the correct ports are forwarded and get through to your computer as a direct connection from the outside world through the VPN.
