private internet access – Ross's stuff n things

To begin, lets start with installing Transmission and OpenVPN.
To install Transmission

sudo apt install transmission-daemon

Once it is installed you will want to access the web GUI from another machine so lets go into the settings.json and tweak a few things so you can access it.

First we need to stop transmission

sudo service transmission-daemon stop

Then with your favorite editor go ahead and open the settings file, I prefer nano so

nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

We need to just change a couple lines, where I have 192.168.10.* type your lan range be it 192.161.* or 192.168.0.* the * is a wildcard that will let anyone on your lan access the transmission web-GUI.

“rpc-authentication-required”: false,
“rpc-bind-address”: “0.0.0.0”,
“rpc-enabled”: true,
“rpc-whitelist”: “192.168.10.*”,

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i was having an issue with stuff loading crazy slow in a hyper-v virtual machine after many searches online with people with the same issues and never an issue i kept looking and eventually i stumbled on this, its for “some versions of windows” which happens to fix the issues in a hyper-v vm. atleast it seems to be the case so far immediately after doing the driver install my speeds in utorrent were great and i could still access the internet where as if i had one torrent running it wouldnt even resolve a web address. hope this helps.

here’s the directions with source linked below, i will also mirror their download here incase their link is broken in the future.

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