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What VPN would you recommend for torrenting? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cost, ease of use, speed, other good features, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (4 children)

ProtonVPN for port forwarding, Mullvad for easy usage (Wireguard on Linux).

I use vopono on Linux too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

ProtonVPN works great via Wiregurd on Linux as well just not through the GUI; you can download the configs and connect through terminal or other Wireguard client

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

ProtonVPN also provides Wireguard config files if you don't want to use their shitty python based GUI. Supports port forwarding aswell, althought it sucks to set up and requires to manually disable ipv6 support

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I created a simple script to automatically request a port to ProtonVPN servers and assign it to qbittorrent:

https://github.com/giu176/ProtonVPN-auto-NATPMP

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, luckily arch-qbittorrentvpn already does those things, so I don't have to

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks for sharing! I still need the script because I already have a tunnel on a Mikrotik OS vm router to route all my containers through the vpn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Another benefit of using network namespaces is that I can just disable IPv6 in the network namespace itself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'll admit, I have no idea what the benefit of port forwarding is. I use Mullvad in a Gluten container.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's when you open a publicly facing port and map (forward) it to a local port your machine. In this case, it's opened at the vpn provider's public gateway. Otherwise, it would typically be opened in your router instead.

You can then configure your torrent client to listen on that local port that the public port is forwarded to. I think generally the public and the local port are the same number when using VPN.

If you do that, then others have the ability to initiate a connection to you instead of only you being able to initiate the connection to somebody else.

When seeding/leeching to/from someone else, at least one of you needs a port open. So, if you always have one open, you allow yourself to connect to anyone on the network regardless if they have one open or not.

Sorry if I confused you more, I'm not that great at explaining.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Faster downloads (sometimes significantly), easier to connect to seeders.