Recently mullvad stopped the port forwarding, are there some other trustworthy VPN to do Torrenting out there or others solutions to do torrenting with Mullvad?
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AirVPN customer since 7-8 years. If you want some flashy highly polished website and client which could win design awards, look elsewhere. Otherwise it’s top notch. They have an easy to use client and support for both native WireGuard and OpenVPN.
100 Euros/3 years, even their prices are good!
Air VPN as it supports port forwarding. PF isn’t as important if you only download popular new content, as there are usually enough connectable seeders on popular torrents. But PF is absolutely crucial if you want to be able to obtain old or rare content or if you use private trackers.
I’m honestly baffled that so many are still recommending Mullvad after they made such a stunning reversal of their friendly policy towards p2p by removing port forwarding. I wouldn’t trust them as far as I can throw them.
Dude it’s insane how many people here A) don’t even know what port forwarding is and B) tell others port forwarding isn’t needed at all.
Where does all this confusion come from?
Switched to AirVPN. It’s pretty good so far. Not great for general browsing because you get a ton of captchas.
I used to use Air but the speeds were absolutely abysmal. 2-3 MB/s vs 50-55 MB/s on mullvad. Has the situation improved at all?
for me it was 70MB/s on mullvad and 50MB/s on AirVPN
FYI, changing from one exit node to another can change speeds drastically.
Mullvad is nice because you don’t need to make an account or sign up with an ID or phone number. Plus you can pay with monero.
but no PF, so it doesn’t matter how nice it is.
Their decision to block port forwarding was unfortunate, but understandable. I’ve been using it for the past year and when I first started, I rarely ran into any issues with being blacklisted. Now it’s a nearly daily occurrence. I don’t know how true it is, but Mullvad claimed that much of the activity leading to blocked IPs came from activity related to port forwarding. If that’s true, then I’d say the decision is good. Like others have said, torrenting is still possible without port forwarding, but it’s also true that rarer content and private trackers become difficult. Ultimately there was no perfect solution here.
I’m deeply sorry, but I had to mention i2p torrenting, it might become more popular soon.
Sidenote: I2P torrenting doesn’t require a vpn or port forwarding, and is indeed more private.
I2P torrenting with a seedbox is the undeniable future. It will probably just take a year or so to reach critical mass. It’s slow now because a lack of mass.
The main relevant difference between I2P and Tor is that Tor runs on donated bandwidth and therefore can’t scale: the more it is used, the more volunteers are needed to donate bandwidth. Which is why they aren’t happy with people torrenting.
I2P is P2P so the more people use it, the faster it becomes. Which is why they really want people to use it for torrenting.
Why do you see i2p torrenting becoming popular? I think it’s probably too much hassle for 99% of people.
Once all major bittorrent clients support it with integrated I2P routers, the hassle is literally just checking a box, which will be on by default in many clients.
Remember when trackers were being taken down and we all switched to DHT/magnet? Same will happen if they go after VPN’s, we will switch to I2P. And it seems they are going after VPN’s.
which clients support it already?
I’m still using Mullvad and QBittorrent and I torrent my bloody black guts out with no noticed degradation in speeds since their announcement that they were no longer supporting port forwarding. It’s anecdotal, I know, but so far I haven’t noticed any problems.
AirVPN is a good one
Private Internet Access allows port forwarding
They used to be Denver-based, but got bought out by a shitty British mega corporation with shit policies, so I dropped them for Nord, which also sucked because their servers were slow.
I torrent all my Linux distros with Mullvad. No problems here.
do you understand what port forwarding is for?
edit: basically, one of two ends of a connection has to have port forwarding, or else the connection can’t happen at all.
Finally it gets explained! On Reddit all I ever saw was “if you don’t know what port-forwarding is, you don’t need to know since you wouldn’t use it”
ProtonVPN. It’s an organization built around principles of privacy, so I use them a lot and support them as much as I can. I have their VPN on a docker container with gluetun.
I’m a proton unlimited subscriber and I love it. Simplelogin, e2ee emails, vpn, all amazing. Their tech support team is awesome and they have always been fast and helpful when assisting me with my computers.
E2ee emails is only between proton and proton btw, proton to gmail (or anyone else) is not emcrypted by default, you’d need to pgp it yourself for that.
I know that may sound obvious, but you’d be surprised how many people don’t know that so I just wanted to drop a heads up just in case anyone reading was unaware.
Yeah I’m moving to Proton when my current Surfshark membership expires.
Plus a great mail provider to escape the Gmail.
I like proton mail and use it for my daily, but I’ve heard rumors it’s a fed honeypot. Seems like a good choice to escape corporate big data collection, but probably want to avoid it for anything of questionable legality.
Yea great to get away from those damn adverts. I often wonder with enough pressure would they comply with a government or as you said are they a honey pot themselves. In europe Encrochat was a good example of it happening.
still using mullvad and haven’t had any issues.
they don’t have port-forwarding, how can be that not an issue for torrenting?
port forwarding isn’t exactly necessary, but it does help with connectivity.
I’m new to vpns, what’s port forwarding?
Why is everyone anti NordVPN again?
At least in the context of the question:
- they don’t have port forwarding. 2) their speeds for torrenting are crap.
They are a great VPN. People hated them because it’s a fad to hate on the status quo, as well as their heavy and annoying advertising campaign.
I have had them. At least for torrenting they are crap. No port-forwarding and crappy speeds. I’m not using them now, and I’m very happy.
Also to watch content from other regions from streaming services. All their servers were banned…
I use Mullvad and do not need to forward any ports for torrenting.
You do if you want to seed or use private trackers otherwise you can make any incoming connections.
5 € VPN + 5 € seedbox is a great combo. I would swear Mullvad is even faster now that they stopped supporting PF.
It is faster because they are losing subscribers, and because their remaining subscribers are having more difficulty connecting to peers due to lack of PF. I switched to Air VPN and was actually surprised how fast it was compared to Mullvad. (the Canadian servers at least, haven’t tried many of the other servers).
I’m still seeding using Mullvad right now…
Most downloaders will not be able to reach you.
