I’m mainly only using it for p2p, everything else is secondary. Portforwarding is necessary though.
Edit: Decided on AirVPN. It wasn’t too pricy, only 2 dollars above my current Usenet + Indexer plan.
Just learned about the removal of port forwarding. Damn this sucks.
I’ve had mullvad for years but never forwarded a port. What’s the use case? Like if a game won’t connect properly or something? Just curious what I’m missing out on
It’s useful for opening up ports for Bittorrent, which is the main reason Mullvad is deciding to shut them down.
Nah, they’re shutting off port-forwarding because there were probably a bunch of users abusing the service and using it to distribute CSAM, and they got tired of having law enforcement at their door. Port-forwarding itself isn’t inherently bad, but when it’s used for that purpose it is.
If you want privacy everyone else gets it to, its the price of the service
Absolutely, just a shame the few people who abused it, ruined it for everyone else
I use Proton VPN, but it’s not free.
It’s pretty much the best free VPN I know of, but the free tier doesn’t allows P2P/torrential.
Can’t access it now because the subreddit is private, but I remember that IVPN and AirVPN are recommended. I think ProtonVPN is too, but the port forwarding might be a bit of a hassle depending on your OS. CryptoStorm used to be recommended, but was removed because of “lack of recent activity”, whatever the hell that means.
PIA allows port forwarding in certain country exit points
They are also based out of the United States
That’s what I use, PIA definitely isn’t a great provider (in a lot of ways), but they’re reliable, fast, and very cheap if you get in one one of their frequent sales.
I’ve been using PIA because their Toronto server has port forwarding and a fast connection to my area. Their 3.4 year plan is also a really good deal, but test it on a monthly plan before you commit because not all of their servers are great.
I used to torrent with no protection, I had no idea my provider was throttling my p2p connections. Going to a vpn sped up my downloads significantly.
AirVPN is nice, I just started using them.
IVPN port forwarding is pretty good. So long as you connect to the VPN every 14 days, you keep the same randomly assigned port, too.
I’ve been using AirVPN for seven years with few problems. I’d recommend waiting for one of their big sales (Halloween, Black Friday, Christmas, anniversary sale) to buy a two or three year plan.
Do you know how cheap they get?
I saw it for like 100 for three years but dont know what the “best deal” is.
Currently looking at AirVPN and ivpn.
I use protonvpn’s tor servers
I’ve been hearing great stuff about ProtonVPN, might as well try it out.
My other option was Windscribe, which I heard was good.
What are you using for Usenet?
Eweka + NZBGeek Eweka has a massive sale, but I can’t find it because it’s on a privated Reddit sub.
I have been considering switching to Proton.
From a port-forwarding perspective, I’ve heard that Proton VPN is clunky at best. It only works on Windows and the port changes frequently.
You mean Proton doesn’t work on Linux/Android/Apple?
It does yes, but there is no port-forwarding
Oh okay, so that’s bad as well, shit
