Is Windscribe a good VPN for torrenting? (pawb.social)

submitted 5 months ago by lunar454@pawb.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I was just curious about this because I haven’t seen anything on this community, and I don’t want to get in trouble with my ISP since it’s the only reliable one in my area. If so, is it exclusively the paid tiers, or free tiers too?

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[-] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 8 points 5 months ago

I have no experience with Windscribe other than that I recall looking into them when I was personally looking to replace Mullvad.

All I can offer is that their pricing is pretty much on par with ProtonVPN, who I have found to be very solid.

Proton also has a free tier, though I'm not sure how well P2P works on it.

[-] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 11 points 5 months ago

Just a note that Proton VPN doesn't allow P2P on their free plan.

[-] PlainSimpleGarak@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

Just curious, why were wanting to replace Mullvad?

[-] BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

They don't allow port forwarding anymore, if I'm not mistaken

[-] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 4 points 5 months ago

As the other user said, they removed support for port forwarding. They are my #1 pick for anyone where that is not a concern.

[-] Epzillon@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Yep, port forwarding is gone. Never used it before but now that I actually need it it's gone. In other areas I'd say Mullvad is number one for VPNs. Sweden based, great transparency, fair price model and no shady parent companies.