qBittorrent Setup Guide 2024

2024-04-27 11:06:25
A general setup guide for qBittorrent. The most secure way to torrent over the Internet.

Go to the Network interface section, and choose your VPN interface. If you're using Mullvad, there should be an entry for Mullvad.

This will make sure to bind your qBittorrent connection directly to your VPN. There will be no possibility of mistakenly opening qBittorrent without your VPN on, leaking your gateway IP to the world. If you don't have a VPN and are living in Germany, Western European nations, or North America, you need one... Unless you're only downloading ISOs or legal, non-copywritten material, that is.

Go to the Encryption mode: section. Make sure it's set to Require encryption.
Check the checkbox for Enable anonymous mode.
Make sure that the value 30 is set for all of the following options:

Under Seeding Limits, ensure When ratio reaches is checked, and the value is set to 0.00.
Under the then area, make sure the value is set to Pause torrent.

Navigate to the Saving Management subsection. Set the following options: Default Torrent Management Mode: Automatic, When Torrent Category changed: Relocate torrent, When Default Save/Incomplete Path changed: Relocate affected torrents, and When Category Save Path changed: Relocate affected torrents.
Nativate to the Saving Management subsection. Ensure that the Use Subcategories checkbox is checked.
Nativate to the Saving Management subsection. Ensure that the Copy .torrent files to: checkbox is checked. Be sure to set a default value via the file picker option on the right.

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