Vuze proxy settings: why we cannot verify them, and what to use instead

We cannot tell you Vuze's proxy settings with any confidence. Its documentation site is offline, and its last release is from 2017, so there is nothing current to check them against. What we can say is that BiglyBT, the maintained fork of the same code, documents its proxy options in detail, and that it is the client we would point a Vuze user to.

That is not the answer most "Vuze proxy settings" pages give. It is the one we can stand behind.

Why there is no verified menu path here

Here is what we found when we tried to check:

• The documentation is gone. Vuze's wiki at wiki.vuze.com returns a "not found" error, so the pages that once described its connection and proxy options cannot be read.
• The last release is old. The final release folder on the project's SourceForge page is Vuze_5760, version 5.7.6.0, with files dated 2 November 2017. The Vuze website is still up but shows no version number.
• The licence of current downloads is unclear. Vuze grew out of the open-source Azureus project, but we could not confirm the licence of the builds on vuze.com today.
• There are ads. The site lists "No Ads" as a feature of its paid Vuze Plus, which implies the free build shows them. Whether its installer bundles other offers, we could not confirm.

Other guides publish Vuze menu paths anyway. We have no current source to verify them against, so we are not repeating them. If a page tells you exactly where Vuze's proxy box is and what it covers, ask where it got that from.

The maintained route: BiglyBT

BiglyBT's own README says it was "forked from the original project and is being maintained by two of the original developers". It still uses the old azureus.* configuration names, which shows how much code the two share. Unlike Vuze, it is current: version 4.1.0.0 came out in May 2026, and its site says its installer "contains no third party offers".

What BiglyBT documents, in its wiki page "Proxies and VPNs", is the most candid proxy write-up of any client we looked at:

• an HTTP proxy covers trackers and HTTP seeds, and "does NOT affect normal peer-to-peer connections";
• SOCKS proxies carry outgoing peer connections only, with no incoming connections;
• extra peer sources and the Mainline DHT plugin can expose your address unless you switch them off.

Our BiglyBT proxy guide walks through those settings with BiglyBT's exact labels. It is reasonable to guess that a 2017 Vuze has similar options under its connection settings, since the code is shared, but a guess is all it would be.

If you stay on Vuze anyway

Then let the meter answer the question the documentation cannot. A few things hold whatever Vuze's settings look like:

• Use SOCKS5 with ProxyPanda, not a plain HTTP proxy, which does not carry peer traffic in clients that document this.
• Expect no UDP through us. We have not verified a UDP relay on our gateways, so treat our SOCKS5 as TCP only. DHT, UDP trackers and uTP will not work through the proxy, and we cannot say whether Vuze would send them from your own address instead. HTTP vs SOCKS5 has the protocol background.
• No encryption, and traffic both ways. A proxy encrypts nothing. Downloads and uploads both cross it, and how each direction counts on your plan is under metering.
• Lawful use only. Use it for files you have the right to share: distribution images, open-source releases, Internet Archive and Creative Commons items. Unauthorised sharing is not allowed on ProxyPanda; see the acceptable use policy, which also makes staying within the law your job. Within that, peer-to-peer traffic is fine on our residential proxies and on dedicated ISP or datacenter IPs with no traffic cap.

To test what Vuze actually does, note your service's traffic figure in the dashboard (where to find it), download a small, lawful torrent, and compare the dashboard a few minutes later with what Vuze says it transferred. If the dashboard barely moved, peers did not go through the proxy, whatever the settings screen suggested.

And ask whether you need a proxy at all. For a Linux image with an HTTP mirror, the mirror is simpler and puts nothing on a meter.

What we could not confirm

• Vuze's current proxy menu path and option names.
• Which traffic its proxy settings cover, and what happens to DHT and UDP.
• Whether it supports a SOCKS5 username and password.
• The licence and installer contents of today's downloads.

Quick answers

Where are the proxy settings in Vuze? We could not verify them; its documentation is offline. BiglyBT, its maintained fork, documents them under Tools > Options > Connection > Proxy Options.

Is Vuze still updated? Not that we could find. The last release on its SourceForge page is 5.7.6.0, from 2017.

Is BiglyBT the same as Vuze? It is a fork of the same code base, maintained by two of the original developers.

Can I move from Vuze to BiglyBT? BiglyBT is built from the same code, but we have not tested moving settings across ourselves, so back up your torrents and downloaded files first.

Next step

If you are choosing a client from scratch, which torrent clients work with SOCKS5 compares the documented ones. If Vuze's screens match something we could check, send a screenshot to Discord with your details blurred, and we will look.