I’m mainly only using it for p2p, everything else is secondary. Portforwarding is necessary though.
Edit: Decided on AirVPN. It wasn’t too pricy, only 2 dollars above my current Usenet + Indexer plan.
Just learned about the removal of port forwarding. Damn this sucks.
I’ve had mullvad for years but never forwarded a port. What’s the use case? Like if a game won’t connect properly or something? Just curious what I’m missing out on
It’s useful for opening up ports for Bittorrent, which is the main reason Mullvad is deciding to shut them down.
Nah, they’re shutting off port-forwarding because there were probably a bunch of users abusing the service and using it to distribute CSAM, and they got tired of having law enforcement at their door. Port-forwarding itself isn’t inherently bad, but when it’s used for that purpose it is.
If you want privacy everyone else gets it to, its the price of the service
Absolutely, just a shame the few people who abused it, ruined it for everyone else
Really hope they add it back in the future. AirVPN has been great so far, but their mobile app is kind of ass (I’m also using the VPN for some other stuff outside of torrenting).
Well I liked Mullvad because they genuinely supported privacy.
I’m using port forwarding to access by server by SSH. I guess not anymore :/
I use Proton VPN, but it’s not free.
It’s pretty much the best free VPN I know of, but the free tier doesn’t allows P2P/torrential.
PIA allows port forwarding in certain country exit points
Can’t access it now because the subreddit is private, but I remember that IVPN and AirVPN are recommended. I think ProtonVPN is too, but the port forwarding might be a bit of a hassle depending on your OS. CryptoStorm used to be recommended, but was removed because of “lack of recent activity”, whatever the hell that means.
I’ve been using PIA because their Toronto server has port forwarding and a fast connection to my area. Their 3.4 year plan is also a really good deal, but test it on a monthly plan before you commit because not all of their servers are great.
I used to torrent with no protection, I had no idea my provider was throttling my p2p connections. Going to a vpn sped up my downloads significantly.
I’ve been using AirVPN for seven years with few problems. I’d recommend waiting for one of their big sales (Halloween, Black Friday, Christmas, anniversary sale) to buy a two or three year plan.
Do you know how cheap they get?
I saw it for like 100 for three years but dont know what the “best deal” is.
Currently looking at AirVPN and ivpn.
25% off usually, sale just finished
Good choice on AirVPN, never had a single issue with them in the 6 years I’ve used it.
IVPN port forwarding is pretty good. So long as you connect to the VPN every 14 days, you keep the same randomly assigned port, too.
What are you using for Usenet?
Eweka + NZBGeek Eweka has a massive sale, but I can’t find it because it’s on a privated Reddit sub.
I have been considering switching to Proton.
From a port-forwarding perspective, I’ve heard that Proton VPN is clunky at best. It only works on Windows and the port changes frequently.
I use protonvpn’s tor servers
I’ve been hearing great stuff about ProtonVPN, might as well try it out.
My other option was Windscribe, which I heard was good.
My father had a pretty bad experience with windscribe. Well at least he attributes it to windscribe, I’ll never know for sure.
Can you elaborate?
What?? Why did they remove that?
People were hosting nefarious sites and services using their port forwarding, which brought law enforcement to them, IPs being blacklisted, and hosting providers cancelling them.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/
