Can I bind qbittorrent to pia w/o running pia on my router?

I get crappy bandwidth when I turn pia on in my asus router - speed goes from 300 mbps to 80 mbps. I really don't want dcma notices from using qbittorrent. In qbit I can either use proxy or bind. I understand binding is more robust, but, have been using proxy for several years and have not had issues. Is there a way to use binding w/o running pia through my router? I'm gonna guess the answer is a big fat "no" since there is no pia interface to bind to unless the pia vpn client is started in the asus router.

But, I'm hoping there's some magic settings that will allow me to use binding instead of proxy for a better torrenting experience.