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What percent of torrent users have open ports and are connectable? What would the speed difference be? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So until now I always had closed ports because my ISP put me behind a CGNAT and can't open ports (No I don't need a vpn because no one cares in my country) Over time I just accepted that I cannot open ports but recently saw that if I tell them they will take me out of the CGNAT and be connectable, now I'm waiting for that.

Do you know what speed can you have before and after you open ports and more importantly what percent of peers have their ports open?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't now about numbers, but quality-wise... It's another world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Most certainly

MyAnonamouse is the first place where I really saw attention drawn to encourage port forwarding and after seeing the difference will always have ports forwarded

[–] Unforeseen 1 points 3 months ago

Same for the mouse. My ratio is ridiculous as I just leave everything seeding. I also use a VPN that allows port forwarding even though its not a big deal in my country I still do it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Download speed wasn’t really affected. But my uploading skyrocketed. I went from struggling to get 1.0 ratios to almost always getting 1.0 on even the most mediocre torrents.

The type of person to seed is more likely to open ports for this so if you didn’t have them open you’d be unaffected. But the type of person who mostly just leeches and doesn’t care about seeding probably wouldn’t notice because the seeders have their ports opened so they didn’t need to.