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What VPN do you use and why? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you are a pirate VPN is an essential tool. I am trying to ascertain the popularity of various VPNs in piracy community. In this excerise, I will list several Popular VPNs in the comment if you use one of them just upvote that comment and reply the reason. If you don't find your VPN listed add a comment with just their name. Reply the reason to it. This make it easier to understand the real life user cases.

P.S: I am only looking for paid VPNs please don't mention "free vpn".

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

AirVPN because of port forwarding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you use it for?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The port forwarding? It makes torrenting work better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Interesting, I haven't experienced anything like this with regards to torrent failures. I don't entirely follow what failure means in this context though. I have torrents that have never completed due to lack of seeds and peers. I don't think I've had a torrent fail in thousands over the last few years (data based on my current NAS box, but was true prior to that too)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The link above explains it better than I can, but without port forwarding it'll still work, but it works better with an open port.

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

Yeah but the reason to do it is stated as:

If you are OK with your downloads failing in 10% of cases then continue as usual.

Unless I'm missing something, there's no point in me pursuing it as I don't have the problem described, because my Torrents aren't failing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I have torrents that have never completed due to lack of seeds and peers.

That's what failing means here. You know how you sometimes see a torrent site list a non-zero number of seeders but when you try to download it, you don't connect to any of them and it shows 0 seeders in your client? That's what happens when neither you nor the seeders have port forwarding set up.