Random connection timeouts while torrenting

kulkris

This problem I have started ever since I got the new Windows Creators update. What is happening is that while I download something in qbitorrent after a while my speeds go to 0 kb/s and then the AirVPN client timeout and starts to reconnect. Here is the specific part of the log.

. 2017.05.20 12:00:39 - Updating systems & servers data ...

. 2017.05.20 12:00:39 - Systems & servers data update completed

. 2017.05.20 12:10:42 - Updating systems & servers data ...

. 2017.05.20 12:10:43 - Systems & servers data update completed

. 2017.05.20 12:13:06 - OpenVPN > Authenticate/Decrypt packet error: bad packet ID (may be a replay): [ #1103036 ] -- see the man page entry for --no-replay and --replay-window for more info or silence this warning with --mute-replay-warnings

Up until this point everything is normal. At 12:20:44 my speeds are 0

. 2017.05.20 12:20:44 - Above log line repeated 778 times more

. 2017.05.20 12:20:44 - Updating systems & servers data ...

. 2017.05.20 12:20:44 - Systems & servers data update completed

4 minutes later timeout.

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - OpenVPN > [server] Inactivity timeout (--ping-restart), restarting

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - OpenVPN > SIGUSR1[soft,ping-restart] received, process restarting

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - OpenVPN > Restart pause, 5 second(s)

! 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - Disconnecting

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - Management - Send 'signal SIGTERM'

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - OpenVPN > MANAGEMENT: CMD 'signal SIGTERM'

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - OpenVPN > C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe DELETE 194.187.251.154 MASK 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.254

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - OpenVPN > Route deletion via IPAPI succeeded [adaptive]

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - OpenVPN > C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe DELETE 0.0.0.0 MASK 128.0.0.0 10.4.0.1

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - OpenVPN > Route deletion via IPAPI succeeded [adaptive]

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - OpenVPN > C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe DELETE 128.0.0.0 MASK 128.0.0.0 10.4.0.1

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - OpenVPN > Route deletion via IPAPI succeeded [adaptive]

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - OpenVPN > Closing TUN/TAP interface

. 2017.05.20 12:24:01 - OpenVPN > SIGTERM[hard,init_instance] received, process exiting

. 2017.05.20 12:24:02 - Connection terminated.

. 2017.05.20 12:24:02 - DNS leak protection with packet filtering disabled.

I 2017.05.20 12:24:07 - Checking authorization ...

! 2017.05.20 12:24:07 - Connecting to Alterf (Netherlands, Alblasserdam)

. 2017.05.20 12:24:07 - OpenVPN > OpenVPN 2.4.0 x86_64-w64-mingw32 [sSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [PKCS11] [AEAD] built on Jan 29 2017

The real problem is that while the AirVPN client connects to a new server and does it's thing my torrents speed up again, even before it finishes. This not supposed to happen right? That is what the network lock is for. If I stop the torrent when the packet error line first pops up, it stops and I stay connected. This only happens with torrents browser downloads are fine.

Oblivion 2013

Sure I had this problem too since Windows 10 Creator Update changed many things how network adapters work. You can visit the topic I link to, it started to everyone including people using OpenVPN or any other VPN service.

* Your VPN IP/TCP/UDP connection setup times, for every external IP your Torrent client wants to connect with go, over all network adapters, your true IP does not leak off course but you should manual try to override the VirtualTAP adapter gets first always instead of your system picking random network card.

It is because Microsoft changed something inside Windows which they like to do once and a while.

Problem is solved in the latest Eddie Experimental for Windows 10 but I assume you have an older Eddie Client. But then you can simply modify it as described in the topic I link here:

https://airvpn.org/topic/22650-windows-10-creator-update-airvpn-dns-slow/

The topic is called:

Windows 10 creator update Airvpn DNS slow ?