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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by lennvilardi to c/vpn
 

Mullvad is removing port forwarding (https://mullvad.net/fr/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/). Is there a credible alternative ?

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[–] bunjix 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Would you mind reporting back your findings here? :)

[–] zehty 4 points 2 years ago

I was an AirVPN user for a number of years until Mullvad came around. I switched to Mullvad and stuck with them for a few years. However, now that Mullvad has gotten rid of port forwarding, I have since moved back to AirVPN.

The performance has been solid with all the servers I have used, even with multiple tunnels open. My only complaint is that the IPs on the servers I use are unfortunately blacklisted on quite a number of sites. Other than that, I am satisfied.

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

What I can already say is that the Eddy app for android worked pretty bad on my Pixel 6. But with the Wireguard app everything is smooth. For my Fedora Installation I can say it works fine as long as I disable DHCP in the LAN config. There are better solutions but I did not dare to change anything deeper in the system so far. Even more as I mostly use my VPN over my router, and that way I have no DNS/IP leakage.

App wise Mullvad was much better.

[–] bunjix 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for getting back to us!

Do you know if they have a setting for what Mullvad call "Local network sharing"? I.e. keep device with VPN visible and reachable by local network IP.

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

Hi, so far everything works fine! Max out my connection which is not very fast.