

Usually on the other adapters, the line below “IPv4 Address” that says “Subnet Mask” will often (if not always) have one of the following values But what we want to look for is the line below that could be quite revealing. I shall admit that if you have a lot of adapters it won’t be easy to find some times. So, what we want to look for is the “IPv4 Address” of the VPN adapter. What is actually being printed is the most used information about your internet adapters. This will drop down a lot of text, that might be overwhelming for some, but fear not. This should open up the black terminal window. Now we need to open the command prompt terminal, so to do that we simply type


Once it has a connection, click the Windows Key, or open your start menu ( PS: This is a guide for the Windows OS if you haven’t figured that out by now). So the first thing we need to do is to start up our VPN service and connect to it. To do this, we need to find out what the VPN’s “local” IP address is that we want to force bind to the torrent client. Some computers have a WiFi adapter installed either on the motherboard, or any external cards or dongles, so don’t panic if you find more! Anyhow, the trick is to find out which one is used for your VPN service. If you have installed a VPN client software, you should have two. Usually your computer has at least one adapter. Click here to learn more! So how to prevent this (in uTorrent)?Ī serious torrent client should always have a configuration section where the user can force the client to only use one specific network adapter. In this tutorial we are using VPN service from Private Internet Access. What uTorrent does during a VPN disconnection is to reset all it’s connections, and start back up again on the regular network connection that is not encrypted. During the night for instance, your VPN tunnel could go down while you sleep, and you would be totally unaware that you’re computer now downloads on your regular network connection. Some torrents takes forever to download, and you’re not always at your computer. Starting up any VPN service, and then fire up uTorrent is easy!īut what happens if your VPN connection goes down and you get disconnected from the service?
