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The best VPN services | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mullvad no longer supports port forwarding, making it completely useless for torrenting which is my main use case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I find this interesting because I use Mozilla VPN, which is just rebranded Mullvad, and qBittorrent works just fine on it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can torrent without portforwarding. The only issue is on rare Linux isos. You potentially will have trouble discovering new peers. At least one person will need portforwarding.

[–] Lord_Boffum 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's more that effective seeding is very hard without a forwarded port. If you only leech, you'll be fine. But that's not how the system is envisioned.

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

Really? I was planning to switch to Mullvad.

[–] Lord_Boffum 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Had to leave MV because of this. I went to Proton, though I did need special software to support its form of port forwarding without introducing a regular hassle. All good now, mostly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yep I use the binhex container too, makes everything really easy to set up.

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

I was looking at Proton too but I'm already a customer and the VPN is going to be shared with family members. I worries if they can access my mail if I share my account.

[–] Lord_Boffum 2 points 2 years ago

You can get around this by generating the files for OpenVPN or Wireguard for them and sending those.