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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

NordVPN is not good for torrents, they don't support port forwarding

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you explain how port forwarding is used for torrenting and how it works with other VPNs?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Basically, if you aren't port forwarded, you will get less peers. This is because you aren't allowing incoming traffic, so only other port forwarded peers can talk to you. If you are port forwarded, you get all the peers.

With vpns that support port forwarding, you can set the port forwarded port on the VPN to the port in your bittorrent client and it will allow incoming traffic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Interesting, thanks for answering me. I didn't know about this.

[–] Tja 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How is STUN relevant here?

Edit: I see it can be used for hole punching. However, port forwarding directly is a much more elegant solution I feel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

intersting thnkas