Do you want to know if you are well protected with Torrent? We have developed our own test to help you find out.
Torrent leak test guide
- Start the test
- Do not close the window during the next steps!
- Afterwards, you can download a torrent
- Import it into your torrent client and start the download of the file
- A short time later the test will show you the result in the same window.
Note: The test collects the data only temporarily from the client that loads the file. After about an hour, they are no longer available, as they have been automatically deleted.
Torrent Leaks? What do you reveal when you download?
The Torrent Leak test shows you what IP address and other data others can see about you while you are using Torrent.
Other available leak tests:
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Privacy:
This test is designed to make visible the data that a user downloads when downloading files via torrent. This data, like the dynamically generated “torrent”, is automatically deleted from our servers no later than 10 minutes after the test has been performed. We do not log the queries or the data of the users.
What this test actually shows
When you download over BitTorrent, your IP address is not hidden from anyone. Every other peer in the same swarm sees it, and so does anyone monitoring that swarm — which is how copyright notices find their way to your door. A VPN is supposed to replace that address with one of its own. This test checks whether it actually does.
The difference to an ordinary IP check matters: a normal website only sees the address your browser uses. Your torrent client is a separate program and can take a different route — for example when it binds to the wrong network interface, or when the VPN drops and the client keeps going. That is why a browser-based check can look perfectly fine while your torrent traffic is still exposed. This test measures the address your torrent client really uses.
How to read the result
- The address shown belongs to your VPN provider — your setup is working. The country should match the server you selected.
- The address is your own — your torrent traffic is running outside the tunnel. Check whether the VPN is actually connected, and whether your client is bound to the VPN interface.
- Several different addresses appear — part of your traffic is leaking. This usually points to an IPv6 leak: the VPN handles IPv4 while IPv6 takes the direct route.
Frequently asked questions
You start the test, download the torrent file we generate for you and load it into your torrent client. As soon as the client joins, it announces itself with an IP address — and that is the address the test records and shows you. It is the same address every other peer in a swarm would see, and it comes from your torrent client rather than from your browser.
Because they are separate programs taking separate routes. Your browser goes through the VPN while the torrent client can still use the normal connection — typically when it is bound to the wrong network interface, or when it kept running after the VPN dropped. This is exactly the case a browser-based IP check cannot detect.
First check that the VPN is connected and reconnect if not. Then look in your torrent client for a setting to bind it to a specific network interface and select the VPN adapter — the client will then refuse to transfer anything when the tunnel is down. Finally, disable IPv6 or choose a provider that routes IPv6 through the tunnel as well.
Without a VPN, yes. The traffic pattern is recognisable, and some providers throttle it. With an active VPN your provider only sees an encrypted connection to the VPN server and cannot tell what is inside it.
It defeats the purpose. If the VPN only carries IPv4 while IPv6 takes the direct route, your real address is visible to anyone in the swarm — even though the IPv4 check looks fine. This is one of the most common reasons for an apparently working setup still being exposed.
What matters is that P2P is explicitly permitted, that no connection logs are kept and that IPv6 is handled properly. Port forwarding helps with upload speed. Our comparison of VPNs for torrenting goes through the providers that meet those conditions.
Yes, and it needs no installation and no account. You start it in the browser and load the resulting file into your torrent client.