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Ive been wanting to make my own home media server for a bit now along with doing some other things, but how do i do it can i use any tech device as a media server, do i buy a bunch of dvds and digitize them. what exactly are the steps that need to be taken?

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[–] linearchaos 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You "can" run torrent without port forward, you get a lot less friction running with one, even on public.

privateinternetaccess has a handfull of nodes that allow port forward, they also have one in switzerland that allows socks proxy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To add, running without portforward lowers the amount of discoverable peers quite a bit, which usually results in a much lower download speed.

[–] linearchaos 2 points 1 year ago

yeah that's the why part of the friction