What's the difference between a proxy and VPN?
A VPN and Proxy offer many of the same benefits. They offer a connection tunnel between your computer and a 3rd party server with optional encryption. They can both be anonymous when combined with a zero-logging policy.
The primary difference is that a Proxy generally protects one or a few individual programs, applications, or protocols while a VPN will anonymize your entire internet connection. BTGuard Proxy for example only routes your bittorrent traffic through the secure anonymous proxy service, while the rest of your programs (like web browser) will use your normal internet connection. This means that things like netflix streaming won't be slowed down or blocked by a connection to an international VPN server.
BTGuard Proxy Features
- Bittorrent Optimized and easy setup
- Free customized version of Utorrent with BTGuard already configured
- BTGuard does not keep logs or monitor usage
- Affordable (as low as $5 per month)
- Encryption available
- Fast Speeds (proxies are general faster than VPN's on the same server)
- Proxy servers are in internet neutral countries like the Netherlands.
Setting Up BTGuard
BTGuard setup is super easy. If you just use their preconfigured version of uTorrent, it's as easy as downloading and installing the program, and you're good to go.
We're huge fans of uTorrent and it's our favorite torrent client, but if you can't part ways with your own personal favorite, don't worry, BTGuard Proxy can be manually configured to work with any Bittorrent Client. BTGuard has manual instructions for many of the most popular clients on their website, but you can find instructions for other clients easily on other sites.
BTGuard Proxy Performance
We were extremely pleased with BTGuard's performance in our testing. It just plain worked all the time. There were no dropped connections. And the best part of using a proxy instead of a VPN, is when your proxy connection drops, so does your bittorrent connection so there is no fear of having your true IP exposed to other computers in the Bittorrent swarm, because the torrent client can only access the internet through the proxy connection. No proxy, no connevtion, no problem.
BTGuard Speed
BTGuard Proxy was able to easily max out our 15Mbps connection. We've read reports of other users maxing out connections as high as 50 Mbps. The bottom line: BTGuard should be plenty fast.
Note: We found our speeds to be consistently higher when using BTguard's uTorrent client rather than our manually configured Vuze client in testing.
BTGuard Security
BTGuard proxy offers guaranteed anonymity when using bittorrent. They keep no connection logs and record no usage data. They also utilize shared IP addresses which means that multiple BTguard users share a single IP address, meaning that activity cannot be traced to a single user. They cannot share information about there customers' usage because they have no information to share.
BTGuard proxy offers secure encryption in addition to anonymity. Users can either use the encryption option built into the uTorrent client or use BTGuard's standalone encryption software which is included free and works with any Bittorrent Client. Encryption prevents even your ISP from intercepting and reading your internet traffic.
Tip: For super security, you can use Bittorrent proxy and a VPN simultaneously. In doing this, you create a secure proxy tunnel inside a secure VPN tunnel for maximum privacy!
We recommend Private Internet Access or IBVPN for an affordable VPN option with no logs.
BTGuard Price
BTGuard Proxy costs:
- $6.95 per month
- $60 per year ($5 per month)
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