How is my ISP detecting and throttling my Bitorrent traffic through AirVPN?

[johnnymac 0]

I'm connected to AirVPN and I have network lock enabled. However, my bitorrent traffic recently slowed from 1 MB/S to 10 kb/s so my ISP is obviously throttling my traffic. How do they even know I'm using Bitorrent if I'm doing it through the VPN? I thought the VPN was encrypted?

I visited https://ipleak.net/ and did the torrent address detection test, only the AirVPN IP showed up.

What's going on?
 

[jeuia3e9x74uxu6wk0r2u9kdos 30]

4 hours ago, johnnymac said:

I'm connected to AirVPN and I have network lock enabled. However, my bitorrent traffic recently slowed from 1 MB/S to 10 kb/s so my ISP is obviously throttling my traffic. How do they even know I'm using Bitorrent if I'm doing it through the VPN? I thought the VPN was encrypted?

I visited https://ipleak.net/ and did the torrent address detection test, only the AirVPN IP showed up.

What's going on?
 

Hi! Can you make this quick and easy test?

These are two ubuntu distributions so nothing monitored by copyright troll firms and they are usually well seeded

http://releases.ubuntu.com/19.10/ubuntu-19.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent

Could you please try to download them with and without AirVPN running and, if you can, posting a screenshot of the speed graph specifying if the VPN was ON or not?

Thank you.

[bluesjunior 43]

Maybe it isn't your ISP. I use qBittorrent and have UPnP switched off in the settings but for a while experienced slow downs and browser lockups while using qBittorrent. After a bit of searching I found that there was also an open UPnP connection in my Linksys router so switched that off as well which has cured the problem for me.

[NoiselessOwl 26]

Possible you are using a port number that your ISP is throttling it. Try a different port number to see if it improved. Go to Eddie setting>Protocols then uncheck Automatic. Then click on the next line item other than TCP/UDP 443 which should be UDP 80. then click save and try again. If that didn't work, try the next following line item. If it still throttling, then it something else.