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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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[-] WhiteTiger@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] snow_storm55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 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.

[-] not_awake@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

there are perfectly fine alternatives.

Would you mind making some examples please?

[-] WhiteTiger@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] lp0101@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] ga22be@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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/

[-] lp0101@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh motherfucker

AirVPN I guess then

[-] ANIMATEK@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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)

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