<h1id="setup-torguard-for-port-forwarding">Setup TorGuard for port forwarding<aclass="headerlink"href="#setup-torguard-for-port-forwarding"title="Permanent link"></a></h1>
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<p>As of 13 March Torguard Settles Piracy Lawsuit and has agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to block BitTorrent traffic on its servers in the US using firewall technology. <imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.0.3/assets/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/></p>
<p>I Talked to several people and they are still able to use Torguard for Torrents, Perhaps because the connection is encrypted. And others just selected a server in another country.</p>
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<pclass="admonition-title">If the US server doesn't work for you use another country</p>
<pclass="admonition-title">As of 13 March 2022 Torguard Settles Piracy Lawsuit and has agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to block BitTorrent traffic on its servers in the US using firewall technology. <imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.0.3/assets/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/><br><br>I Talked to several people and they are still able to use Torguard for Torrents, Perhaps because the connection is encrypted. And others just selected a server in another country.<br>- <ahref="https://torguard.net/blog/why-torguard-is-blocking-bittorrent-on-us-servers/"rel="noopener noreferrer"target="_blank">Source Torguard</a>.<br>- <ahref="https://torrentfreak.com/torguard-settles-piracy-lawsuit-and-agrees-to-block-torrent-traffic-on-u-s-servers-220314/"rel="noopener noreferrer"target="_blank">Source Torrentfreak</a>.</p>
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<pclass="admonition-title">If servers in the United States are not working for you, please try another country</p>
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<h2id="login-to-your-client-area">Login to your Client area<aclass="headerlink"href="#login-to-your-client-area"title="Permanent link"></a></h2>
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<p>Then we're going to select which server we're going to use,</p>
<p>For the best speed it's recommended to choose the one nearest to your location.</p>
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<p>Sometimes you get better speeds if you use one of your neighboring countries.</p>
<pclass="admonition-title">Sometimes you will have better speeds if you choose a neighboring country.</p>
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<pclass="admonition-title">If the US server doesn't work for you use another country</p>
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<p>Let's use for this example: <code>USA Miami</code> and copy/paste the Hostname <code>us-fl.torguard.org</code>.</p>
<p>For this example, let's use: <code>Netherlands Amsterdam</code> and copy/paste the hostname <code>nl.torguard.org</code>.</p>
<p><aclass="glightbox"href="../images/torguard/globalvpnnetwork-list.png"data-type="image"data-width="100%"data-height="auto"data-desc-position="bottom"><imgalt="!Torguard Global VPN Network"src="../images/torguard/globalvpnnetwork-list.png"/></a></p>
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<p>Also check if your chosen server supports OpenVPN or Wireguard depending what you want to use.</p>
<pclass="admonition-title">Also check if your selected server supports Wireguard</p>
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<h3id="get-your-vpn-ip">Get your VPN IP<aclass="headerlink"href="#get-your-vpn-ip"title="Permanent link"></a></h3>
<p>Open a cmd window or something equal and type:</p>
<h2id="how-to-setup-port-forwarding">How to setup Port forwarding<aclass="headerlink"href="#how-to-setup-port-forwarding"title="Permanent link"></a></h2>
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<p>This section will consist of 2 parts depending if you want to use OVPN or WireGuard so make sure you choose your preferred VPN Tunnel type.</p>
<p>From your Client Area go to your <ahref="https://torguard.net/clientarea.php?action=products"rel="noopener noreferrer"target="_blank">My Services</a>.</p>
<p>From your <code>Client Area</code> dashboard, go to <ahref="https://torguard.net/clientarea.php?action=products"rel="noopener noreferrer"target="_blank"><code>My Services</code></a>.</p>
<p>Then click on <code>Manage</code> and select <code>Port Forward Request</code>.</p>
<h4id="ovpn-request-port-forward">OVPN Request Port Forward<aclass="headerlink"href="#ovpn-request-port-forward"title="Permanent link"></a></h4>
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<summary>OVPN Request Port Forward</summary>
<p><aclass="glightbox"href="../images/torguard/request-new-pfw-ovpn.png"data-type="image"data-width="100%"data-height="auto"data-desc-position="bottom"><imgalt="!Request New Port Forward OVPN"src="../images/torguard/request-new-pfw-ovpn.png"/></a></p>
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<li>That's the <code>IP</code> we found earlier.</li>
<li>Select <code>UDP</code>.</li>
<li>Select a <code>Port/Auth</code> I personally use <code>995|SHA1</code>.</li>
<li>Select the <code>Protocol</code><code>TCP</code>.</li>
<li>I suggest to use a high <code>Port</code> number 10.000+ or a game port you don't use, don't use the default torrent ports 6881- 6889
(This is also the port you will use in your torrent client).</li>
<li>Click on the <code>+</code> sign and do the same with the <code>UDP</code><code>Protocol</code>.</li>
<li>Then click on <code>Submit Request</code>.</li>
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<p>If everything went according to plan you will see something like this.</p>
<p>You will also receive a e-mail with the ports you forwarded.</p>
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<p>Normally it doesn't take more then a few seconds/minutes to get the ports approved if it takes longer or you get <code>PENDING</code> I suggest to ping the server again (or choose another sever) and you often get a new IP and retry it again with the new IP.</p>
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<h4id="wireguard-request-port-forward">WireGuard Request Port Forward<aclass="headerlink"href="#wireguard-request-port-forward"title="Permanent link"></a></h4>
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<summary>WireGuard Request Port Forward - [Click to show/hide]</summary>
<p><aclass="glightbox"href="../images/torguard/request-new-pfw-wireguard.png"data-type="image"data-width="100%"data-height="auto"data-desc-position="bottom"><imgalt="!Request New Port Forward WireGuard"src="../images/torguard/request-new-pfw-wireguard.png"/></a></p>
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<li>That's the <code>IP</code> we found earlier.</li>
<li>Select <code>UDP</code>. (<imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.0.3/assets/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/><strong>KEEP THIS ON UDP FOR WireGuard</strong><imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.0.3/assets/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/>)</li>
<li>Select a <code>Port/Auth</code> and select <code>WireGuard</code>.</li>
<li>Select <code>Port/Auth</code> and select <code>WireGuard</code>.</li>
<li>Select the <code>Protocol</code><code>TCP</code>.</li>
<li>I suggest to use a high <code>Port</code> number 10.000+ or a game port you don't use, don't use the default torrent ports 6881- 6889
<li>I suggest to use a high <code>Port</code> number 10000+ or a game port you don't use, don't use the default torrent ports 6881- 6889
(This is also the port you will use in your torrent client).</li>
<li>Click on the <code>+</code> sign and do the same with the <code>UDP</code><code>Protocol</code>.</li>
<li>Click on the <code>+</code> sign, and do the same with the <code>UDP</code><code>Protocol</code>.</li>
<li>Then click on <code>Submit Request</code>.</li>
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<p><imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.0.3/assets/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/> DON'T CHANGE OPTION 2 <code>UDP</code> to <code>TCP</code><imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.0.3/assets/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/></p>
<pclass="admonition-title"><imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.0.3/assets/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/> DON'T CHANGE OPTION 2 <code>UDP</code> to <code>TCP</code><imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.0.3/assets/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/></p>
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<p>If everything went according to plan you will see something like this.</p>
<p>If everything succeeds, you will see the following.</p>
<p>You will also receive a e-mail with the ports you forwarded.</p>
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<pclass="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Normally it doesn't take more then a few seconds/minutes to get the ports approved if it takes longer or you get <code>PENDING</code> I suggest to ping the server again (or choose another sever) and you often get a new IP and retry it again with the new IP.</p>
<pclass="admonition-title">Normally it takes only a short while for the ports to be approved, if it takes longer or you get <code>PENDING</code> I suggest pinging the server again (or choose another server) to attempt to get a new IP. You can then retry the process with the new IP.</p>
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<h2id="how-to-create-the-config-file">How to create the config file<aclass="headerlink"href="#how-to-create-the-config-file"title="Permanent link"></a></h2>
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<pclass="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This section will consist of 2 parts depending if you want to use OVPN or WireGuard so make sure you choose your preferred VPN Tunnel type.</p>
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<p>From your Client Area go to your <ahref="https://torguard.net/tgconf.php?action=vpn-openvpnconfig"rel="noopener noreferrer"target="_blank">Config Generator</a>.</p>
<p>From your <code>Client Area</code> dashboard, go to your <ahref="https://torguard.net/tgconf.php?action=vpn-openvpnconfig"rel="noopener noreferrer"target="_blank"><code>Config Generator</code></a>.</p>
<li>Choose the <code>IP</code> we got earlier and used for the port forwarding.</li>
<li>Choose from the dropdown box the <code>IP</code> we got earlier and used for the port forwarding.</li>
<li>Add your <code>VPN Username</code>.</li>
<li>Only Change this if you know what you're doing <imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.0.3/assets/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/></li>
<li>[Optional] Choose you preferred DNS Server</li>
<li>Only Change this if you know what you're doing <imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.0.3/assets/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/></li>
<li>Click on <code>Generate Config</code></li>
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<p>Now you will download a <code>.conf</code> file with a random number.</p>
<p>Rename the file from <code>*.conf</code> to <code>wg0.conf</code> and copy it to your wireguard folder of your VPN torrent client.</p>
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<p>Thanks:</p>
<p>A big Thanks to <ahref="https://github.com/mrhotio">mrhotio</a> for his excellent instructions on how to setup WireGuard for TorGuard.</p>
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<p>This will generate a <code>.conf</code> file for you to download named with a random number.</p>
<p>Rename the <code>.conf</code> file you just downloaded to <code>wg0.conf</code> and copy it to the wireguard folder of your VPN torrent client.</p>
<h2id="torrent-client-port-forwarding-setup">Torrent client port forwarding setup<aclass="headerlink"href="#torrent-client-port-forwarding-setup"title="Permanent link"></a></h2>
<p>Follow the torrent client's guides on how to set up port forwarding.</p>
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