I'm a Deluge newbie too but in my experience it seems to bypass failed proxy connections and connect directly to the peers. You can see the actual network connections with netstat or Tcpview. This one is another good tracker check: http://ipmagnet.services.cbcdn.com That seems to fall in line with ...

Is it normal for downloads to continue to work without proper Socks5 credentials? I had the peer, web seed, track, and dht configured and then changed the username for all of them. I was't expecting it to still download but it was. With bad credentials lack of connection to the proxy server I would ...

I'm a new Deluge user and setup the peer, web seed, tracker, and dht to go through a proxy. They all use Socksv5 W/ Auth through Private Internet Access. The tracker status of my downloads says publicbt.com: Error: My fear is that the traffic isn't going through the proxy that I configured. Do I nee...