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?

  • axzxc1236@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is it really crucial to find a VPN that supports port forwarding

    It’s crucial when the only seeder won’t open their port.

    what’s the go to option now that it’s becoming increasingly uncommon

    My opinion: I wish qbittorrent 4.6 would release sooner, it comes with I2P support, which I’ve seen discussed on lemmy a few times.

    • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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      1 year ago

      It’s important for rare/poorly seeded torrents, but not at all important if it’s a new release movie or something like that which will be well seeded.

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        1 year ago

        For me it’s incredibly important. If I don’t have port forwarding my status on qbit is restricted and I get like 10% of the speed I do when it’s open. This is for big torrents

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        1 year ago

        True but this’ll only work long term if you download every new thing that you’ll want to watch now or sometime down the road.

    • Qazwsxedcrfv000@lemmy.unknownsys.com
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      4.6 is now at beta1 which is by far and large usable. I think the 4.6 branch will take some time to stablize as it is moving to the libtorrent 2.x branch (from which I2P support comes). Their most recent 2.0.9 has just fixed some I2P related bugs.

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      I wish qbittorrent 4.6 would release sooner

      Is there an ETA or something? I am waiting on it at the moment, but I don’t know their release schedule or anything

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      1 year ago

      How does port forwarding work if you have multiple torrent clients on the same network, all sharing a public IP?

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        1 year ago

        You put them on different ports and make multiple forwards, one for each.

        Each peer can choose any port they want – to open to the swarm. You’re not restricted to one particular port, so there’s no need to clash with another per on your network. The defaults in the settings are merely suggestions.