• ayaya@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

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

      • redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year 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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          What about with something like Soulseek? I’m just getting into using it and still have no idea how to optimize using it, and doing so safely.

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            1 year ago

            I linked a Docker Container elsewhere in this topic that works with Proton’s implementation of port forwarding. Proton’s price is the same as Mullvad too. That would be my recommendation.