Hi everyone,

I’m trying to set up my Unraid server to use qBittorrent behind a VPN, but I’m running into a seeding issue.

The problem

• Without VPN: I get good seeding speeds (several Mbit/s).
• With VPN enabled: seeding drops to a few kbit/s, and only for a few seconds at a time.
• Downloading works fine and is not affected.

My setup

• Unraid server
• qBittorrent running in a Docker container
• WireGuard VPN via Unraid’s built-in VPN Manager
• VPN provider: AirVPN

What I’ve checked so far

• Port forwarding is configured on AirVPN
• AirVPN port test reports the port as “open”
• The same port is:
  • Mapped in the Docker container (see screenshot)
  • Set in qBittorrent’s connection settings
• I also tested using Gluetun instead of Unraid’s VPN Manager, but the behavior was the same

AirVPN port forwarding menu

AirVPN test

Docker port

qBittorrent settings

What I suspect

I’m guessing I’m missing something related to port forwarding or incoming connections, but I can’t figure out what exactly.

Troubleshooting limitations

• I don’t really know how to properly test incoming connections
• Right now, the only way I can tell is by waiting for torrents to get incoming peers, which is… not very effective 😅

At this point, I’m kind of running out of ideas.
If anyone has experience with Unraid + qBittorrent + VPN (especially AirVPN), I’d really appreciate some guidance.

Thanks in advance!