Hi folks. I'm just about ready to take the VPN plunge with PIA but thought I'd run this by you guys first.
I've been using mostly Usenet and Torrents, mostly through Demonoid till they were shut down (haven't re-set a password yet) then Kickass. I may have received a notice or two over the years (possibly recently) from my local ISP which prompted me to start thinking about VPN. I have a Linux PC running Sabnzbd, Sick Beard, Couch Potato and Headphones pulling from Usenet and running my media server backend. It also has Transmission for manual torrent download, mostly for things I can not find on Usenet. I'm not a member of private trackers so it's mostly from Kickass. I have a separate Windows PC for gaming. I was thinking of running the Linux PC only through the VPN to minimize the impact on gaming.
I'm aware there will be some sort of speed hit going through the VPN but think that will be limited to the Linux PC's downloads only. Are there any other drawbacks to this sort of setup that I should consider? Any reason not to use PIA? Any other options I should be looking at instead? Thanks for you thoughts.
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