VPN and port forwarding (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I am looking to buy a VPN subscription, and im interested in getting one that allows port forwarding. Found a few that still allows this, including pure VPN and air VPN which seem to offer good value for money, at least on the the long term plans. Any feedback on these two?

I used to have nordvpn, and used it for 3 years, and once that subscription ran out, have been using mullvad so far. Performance wise mullvad hasnt disappointed me or anything, but now im looking to find one that allows port forwarding.

I also have a doubt regarding the whole port forwarding thing, does the VPN having this feature enable to do it even if my ISP doesnt allow port forwarding? From the videos and articles I read, VPN port forwarding is just something you do inside their native apps and such, so if the ISP hasnt enabled port forwarding for me (which I know it hasnt, because tried to get jellyfin working the other day, and couldnt get the ports to open even after setting everything up in my router), will I still be able to do it? I tried searching around with this query, but didnt really find anything.

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[-] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

the best thing is to try any VPN service for a few days or a week to see whether anything annoying happens in your use case before jumping into a long term contract.

Agreed, that's actually what I did with AirVPN myself before switching to it. Got their 3 day plan and used it the whole way through until I knew the service would work for me. It's too bad not every service offers short plans this way. Fortunately, a lot of them do have 30 day refund policies, so you can just get any plan then cancel and request a refund before the 30 days are out.

Its also possible that the AirVPN servers that you use are not blocked like they are for mine

I think that might be the issue. I almost always connect through Canada servers, since those are always the fastest servers for torrenting and browsing when I sort the servers on the interface by latency vs torrent speeds. I do sometimes connect through their New York servers though, and haven't really noticed any blocking when I do. Maybe they only block some US servers and not others, or I just don't connect through the New York servers often enough to notice any blocking.