Now, we don't believe that these results are typical, but it's probably fair to say that Avast SecureLine VPN has little to no impact on download speeds. Similar to the above qBittorrent setting, if the VPN drops, all traffic to/from Firefox is immediately terminated.Īnother option is to enable Mullvad's VPN killswitch, though that is a sledgehammer solution to the problem.In testing Avast SecureLine VPN, we found that download results were actually 6% faster with it on. I use Firefox, and I set up its network connection to use the Mullvad SOCKS5 proxy. You probably should use a dedicated browser for all your VPN searching. This forces qBittorrent to stay on the Mullvad connection, even if the VPN connection drops (which means that all torrent traffic stops in both directions when the VPN drops). In qBittorrent, go to the Advanced Options, select Network Interface = Mullvad. This will make sure that the Mullvad status is always shown in your taskbar, and you will see it turn red when you are not actively on the VPN In the Windows Taskbar Overflow options, enable the Mullvad icon. To provide better protection, you should have taken the following steps (I'll assume you are running Windows): You might have had a temporary pop-up when Mullvad initially disconnected, and that's it. You could lose your VPN privacy without realizing it. VPNs alone are inherently unsafe without taking other precautions, because PCs are designed to seamlessly fallback to an alternate available network connection if the current network drops.

So, while Mullvad may have been enabled at the time, you may have been disconnected from the VPN (this can happen with any VPN, it's not Mullvad's fault). It's unfortunate, but you did not have your qBittorrent Advanced Settings correct.

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