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My ISP sends me letters even if I am torrenting on VPN. Is there anyway to make my traffic not look like torrenting? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by sum_yung_gai@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Also asked them if torrenting legal stuff is allowed and they said no.

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[-] sum_yung_gai@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

What VPN service do you use?

[-] db2@lemmy.one 74 points 1 year ago

It probably isn't which one that's the problem, it's more likely your setup.

If you can, try disabling IPv6 entirely, turn it off in your operating system and your router. I'd bet you're leaking past the VPN that way.

[-] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't advise turning off ipv6. We are probably getting near the point where some public services will disable or offer v4 as only best effort, and when this happens, your connectivity will be broken for certain things if you disable v6. Heck, it's to the point now where all my home hosted services are v6 only.

The better solution is to just get a VPN that supports ipv6 like airvpn or mullvad. I think pia disables ipv6 while the tunnel is up, which is better than disabling ipv6 altogether.

To validate the tunnel is working properly you can use something like this.

https://ipleak.net/

There is also a Torrent Address detection section, that when you activate it, will provide a magnet link that will show your ip to ensure that it is tunneled properly.

[-] brimnac@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Dude, it’ll be a longer time than this guy is going to be on his ISP before he’ll need to worry about ipv6.

OP - feel free to disable it, IMO.

[-] rickdgray@programming.dev 32 points 1 year ago

Seriously; they've been talking about v6 for like 3 decades now. I'll believe it when I see it.

[-] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

Many ISPs are no longer handing out even 1 public ipv4 address per account, and instead opting for CGnat which further breaks and stratifies the internet.

Tmobile for example is 464xlat which is even worse than cgnat since it requires tampering with dns responses.

Given the situation many ISP are in, most serious companies offering services on the internet have supported ipv6 for a long time now in order to offer the most competitive service possible. And with cloudflare now serving up a large amount of traffic, a lot of all traffic is v6.

Believe it or not, but IPv6 is here and gaining ground.