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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] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 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.

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

there are perfectly fine alternatives.

Would you mind making some examples please?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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] 16 points 1 year 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] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh motherfucker

AirVPN I guess then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oyoyoy. What then?

Moved from mulvad to ivpn and now what?

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m actually using that exact same docker image :) port forwarding still doesn’t work within the US though. I love the speeds I get from Wireguard compared to OpenVPN though.