Designated servers offer no technically advantageous feature set for P2P. They simply keep the P2P traffic separate from other traffic so that non P2P server latencies remain lower and more responsive.
It gives Nord something to advertise as a special service, when it really is only technically advantageous to them that people use those servers for P2P, and not the other servers. If they really wanted offer P2P relevant services, they would have port forwarding available. Basically. by offering P2P servers, they are saying that on those designated servers they do not block P2P traffic. That is the difference.
What P2P traffic will they block on normal servers? Bittorrent traffic?
Essentially the P2P servers do not have port forwarding of any kind, they are servers were torrenting is allowed and in juristrictions that tolerate bittorrent traffic to an extent?
Allegedly they don’t block P2P traffic on the normal servers.
Second question: yes.
My unsolicited opinion: Stay away from NordVPN. If for no other reason, then because they apparently spend a lot of money on paid advertising disguised as reviews, and send shills into spaces like this to try and make themselves look good. They also have a default auto-renewal active on the subscriptions. IMO these are 100% dishonest company tactics - major red flags. You have been warned.
I tried them quite a while back and they had very poor Linux support, and their technical support team was no use whatsoever. Every client version update was a 50/50 gamble if it would work afterwards. And they only had CLI, no GUI for Linux, if that’s important. Their login process was also very strange for a Linux user limited to CLI for usage. The whole thing seemed like their Linux support was an afterthought and they gave exactly zero fucks about it sucking.
I resorted to using an openvpn script in network manager and forgoing the features such as killswitch, etc… In the end I stopped using their vpn altogether, long before my subscription ran out. I have absolutely nothing good to say about NordVPN.
So what is the purpose of NordVPN P2P servers?
It gives Nord something to advertise as a special service, when it really is only technically advantageous to them that people use those servers for P2P, and not the other servers. If they really wanted offer P2P relevant services, they would have port forwarding available. Basically. by offering P2P servers, they are saying that on those designated servers they do not block P2P traffic. That is the difference.
What P2P traffic will they block on normal servers? Bittorrent traffic?
Essentially the P2P servers do not have port forwarding of any kind, they are servers were torrenting is allowed and in juristrictions that tolerate bittorrent traffic to an extent?
Allegedly they don’t block P2P traffic on the normal servers.
Second question: yes.
My unsolicited opinion: Stay away from NordVPN. If for no other reason, then because they apparently spend a lot of money on paid advertising disguised as reviews, and send shills into spaces like this to try and make themselves look good. They also have a default auto-renewal active on the subscriptions. IMO these are 100% dishonest company tactics - major red flags. You have been warned.
I tried them quite a while back and they had very poor Linux support, and their technical support team was no use whatsoever. Every client version update was a 50/50 gamble if it would work afterwards. And they only had CLI, no GUI for Linux, if that’s important. Their login process was also very strange for a Linux user limited to CLI for usage. The whole thing seemed like their Linux support was an afterthought and they gave exactly zero fucks about it sucking.
I resorted to using an openvpn script in network manager and forgoing the features such as killswitch, etc… In the end I stopped using their vpn altogether, long before my subscription ran out. I have absolutely nothing good to say about NordVPN.
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