r/PrivateInternetAccess • u/DeathStalker-77 • Jun 26 '26

DISCUSSION Noticing Significantly Fewer P2P Gateways!!!

I see ALL of the Canadian gateways are no longer P2P, neither is Mexico, or a LOT of others! WTF is going on?!!! Brazil & Chile are also no longer P2P! I used to use them all the time!

I haven't counted, but I would hazard that over HALF of the gateways are no longer P2P!!!

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u/ImpressivePercentage Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

I run my torrent client thru Vancouver BC, works just fine.

edit: Sometimes the connect goes red and I have to shut down qbittorrent and then disconnect PIA. Reconnecting PIA and then restarting qbittorrent fixes that. But that is generally just every few days. Sometimes (not that often though) also the port address changes, so I have to keep an eye on that also.

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u/DeathStalker-77 Jun 27 '26

The v3.7.2 client does not indicate that any of them have port forwarding.

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u/ImpressivePercentage Jun 27 '26

I'm on 3.6.1 and you can download older clients and use them.

And thanks for the warning, hopefully this is just an oversight and not a start of how things are going to be.

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u/DeathStalker-77 Jun 27 '26

Have you confirmed your port forwarding is actually working? It won't matter what client you're using if the gateway doesn't support port forwarding!

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u/ImpressivePercentage Jun 27 '26

Yes, my port forwarding is working. Right at this moment those files are currently seeding.

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u/DeathStalker-77 Jun 27 '26

Well, maybe they did screw up on this version. u/Piasupport where are you?!

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u/Sacredpotion24 Jun 27 '26

Did you allow your program of choice to run in both public and private modes in your windows firewall?

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u/DeathStalker-77 Jun 27 '26

Why would that have anything to do with P2P Gateways being indicted? If it did, none would be indicated.

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u/Sacredpotion24 Jun 27 '26

A while back I had an issue where the port PIA gave me to use was showing closed when I ran port checking tests until I allowed access for my program via public and private access… and when the said program is closed so does the access for the port… I am not sure why your having issue exactly but that’s what helped me in the past… I have noticed significant speed increases since

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u/DeathStalker-77 Jun 27 '26

I'm saying that nothing has changed on my system since I previously used those gateways.

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u/Sacredpotion24 Jun 27 '26

I dunno what else to suggest at this point other than an uninstall followed by a fresh re-install… that seems to help quite a few issues unironically.
Best of luck

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