I’ve been putting off renewing my mullvad membership because of the port forwarding thing. I only want to use it for torrenting. Is it really crucial to find a VPN that supports port forwarding? If so, what’s the go to option now that it’s becoming increasingly uncommon?

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I notice the difference with it off. Its shit without it. I get no incoming connections to existing torrents I’m seeding and when I add a new magnet link it just stays stuck on obtaining metadata and never Downloads.

    When I have the port forwarded it runs like clockwork.

    My setup is containerized with a gluetun container acting as the VPN network and the interface binded inside the qbittorrent container. .

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      1 year ago

      I’m using gluetun with AirVPN and my transmission containers’s connection to peers isn’t great. I have port forwarding enabled (verified working using the test button in transmission). But I can connect to 0 or 1 peer out of 12 on a specific torrent, and without the VPN I can immediately connect to 6 peers.

      Did you do anything tricky with your container stack that isn’t part of the gluetun guide?