I’ve been putting off renewing my mullvad membership because of the port forwarding thing. I only want to use it for torrenting. Is it really crucial to find a VPN that supports port forwarding? If so, what’s the go to option now that it’s becoming increasingly uncommon?

  • WhiteTiger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m more concerned with the fact that they’re removing features without reducing price or making up for it elsewhere. I have no desire to support that business when there are perfectly fine alternatives.

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      1 year ago

      5€ is already dirt cheap. If you have another ~ 5€ service that can max out my 1 Gbps connection when I download, I am all ears.

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      1 year ago

      there are perfectly fine alternatives.

      Would you mind making some examples please?

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        1 year ago

        I use PIA (probably the cheapest out there). If you just care about torrenting, they’re quite good. I can saturate my Gbit connection and they offer PF (only for p2p applications though)

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          I tried getting port forwarding to work with PIA, but it seems to be unavailable within the US. Has that been the case for you as well? Not sure if it’d be worth using an international server with 1/10 the speed in order to enable port forwarding, but I would love to be able to be connectable.

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            1 year ago

            How do you use it? Why do you say it is not available? I am in Europe but I’ve never seen anybody report what you’re saying.

            Like I said, it is limited to p2p applications. You cannot host a web server or something similar.