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How important is port forwarding, actually? (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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

there are perfectly fine alternatives.

Would you mind making some examples please?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/post/698471

ProtonVPN and AirVPN off the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

ProtonVPN has dynamic port forwarding via a Windows client (or a python script if on Linux). Just a heads up, since it could be awkward to work out if you're downloading from a headless server.

I've heard AirVPN is good. I switched to iVPN and I'm satisfied

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Heads up if you don't already know, IVPN recently announced they are dropping port forwarding like Mullvad recently did. https://www.ivpn.net/blog/gradual-removal-of-port-forwarding/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh motherfucker

AirVPN I guess then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've been using airvpn for years, no complaints.

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

Oyoyoy. What then?

Moved from mulvad to ivpn and now what?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Usenet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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)

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

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.

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

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.

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

Port forwarding isn’t available in the US, so I was curious if you’re in the country as well. But yeah if you’re in Europe then it makes sense that it’d be available to you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Try using this instead of the app

https://github.com/thrnz/docker-wireguard-pia

It’s a lot more technical but it’s worth trying.