I’ve been using Mullvad for the past few months. Have not had many issues with it aside from the 5 device limit and the removal of port forwarding. I’m currently looking at Private Internet Access as a potential replacement. It looks like it offers 10 device limit and port forwarding included with the price.
Anyone using PIA? How’s the experience?
Edit: Probably should have mentioned, feel free to offer any other recommendations, I’m not attached to, or against any specific recommendations. I would like it to have a GUI available on Linux though if possible.
Pretty much correct that (most) others wouldn’t be able to connect to your torrent client so you wouldn’t seed except in certain circumstances. Any private tracker would show you as unconnectable.
Indeed, looks like that´s correct. Just to test it, I fired up Q on my own machine, with Nord connected to a swiss server, and while I have no restrictions in place, there´s almost no upload.
Allow me to ask one further question: If I had a VPN which supported port forwarding, how would I go about to usilise that for torrenting? I know port forwarding from my internet router, where I can forward an external port directly to a specific internal IP. Is that similar?
Yes it’s similar but instead you configure Qbit to listen on that port in the settings. Each VPN does port forwarding in their own way but with Mullvad and AirVPN, you request a port forward, they assign one to you and then you input that into Qbit. You should see the green checkmark at the center bottom of the main UI window. If yellow, you don’t have incoming connections, and if red you don’t have incoming or outgoing connections.
Additionally, you can check ipleak.net and download the magnet torrent to make sure everything is working and that you’re not exposing your real IP in any way.