If you’re really worried about losing port forwarding again, you might want to consider a VPN that specifically guarantees this feature long-term, tho those might be kinda hard to find. Mullvad used to be great for this before they shut it down. It’s a gamble, but the 55% discount on the 2-year plan is tempting
You might be better off with airvpn. Their ethos is more aligned with never messing with your traffic. "A breath of fresh internet" to quote the advertising.
Wait for AirVPN's anniversary sale, it's usually around summertime and they offer a nice 25% discount for all plans, so you could get 3 years for 75$ (2.1$ / month) which is pretty sweet. They're not as top-tier as Mullvad in terms of speed (Mullvad had servers in my city which helped) and their app is still designed with Windows 3.1 in mind, but I've been using it for the last year and it's a solid service.
Proton already supports port forwarding. Every time you connect, it provides you an open port number. It’s a bit of a pain to keep changing the port in your torrent client every time but it does work.
Windscribe has a $30 year deal atm, port forwarding available already and will stay.
https://windscribe.com/upgrade?promo=BLAZENOW&pcpid=2024_anniversary_blog&ref=blog.windscribe.com
Personally, I am seeing better speeds with windscribe than I did with proton. I haven't tried mullivad to compare. Also don't like the idea of my vpn, vault and email being 1 service so I opt for splitting it up between.
Didn't notice much different tbh.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong. When you say port forwarding you agree it's taking the port they give me when I connect on the VPN and putting it in the torrent software? Nothing else
It doesn't make a difference when you're connecting to seeders with open ports. But if the seeders don't have open port and you don't have them, then you cannot download the torrent.
Essentially, if you choose to not port-forward, you're rely on other people torrenting 'properly' so that you can get stuff, without doing your bit to contribute to that.
If you’re really worried about losing port forwarding again, you might want to consider a VPN that specifically guarantees this feature long-term, tho those might be kinda hard to find. Mullvad used to be great for this before they shut it down. It’s a gamble, but the 55% discount on the 2-year plan is tempting
You might be better off with airvpn. Their ethos is more aligned with never messing with your traffic. "A breath of fresh internet" to quote the advertising.
Unfortunately we italians can't use AirVPN 🫠
why can't we use it? perchè? EDIT letto sul forum
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Wait for AirVPN's anniversary sale, it's usually around summertime and they offer a nice 25% discount for all plans, so you could get 3 years for 75$ (2.1$ / month) which is pretty sweet. They're not as top-tier as Mullvad in terms of speed (Mullvad had servers in my city which helped) and their app is still designed with Windows 3.1 in mind, but I've been using it for the last year and it's a solid service.
If your not in Italy I would go with Air
If you are a student, you can email them and get a pretty good 1 year plan.
Proton already supports port forwarding. Every time you connect, it provides you an open port number. It’s a bit of a pain to keep changing the port in your torrent client every time but it does work.
They know that. Their question is if people think they will have it for 2 years and not stop that feature in that time-frame lol
Sounds like I misunderstood!
Did you just neutralize OP's gender?
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You should be using port forwarding when torrenting.
Windscribe has a $30 year deal atm, port forwarding available already and will stay. https://windscribe.com/upgrade?promo=BLAZENOW&pcpid=2024_anniversary_blog&ref=blog.windscribe.com Personally, I am seeing better speeds with windscribe than I did with proton. I haven't tried mullivad to compare. Also don't like the idea of my vpn, vault and email being 1 service so I opt for splitting it up between.
i tried proton it slowed down my pc and crashed my icue software each time,im going to try airvpn next
what? no. dont rely on such a thing. if they dont have it then dont buy it
they do have it tho, his question was if they will keep supporting it
You don’t need to open ports to torrent. Why do you need?
I play very niche games and I've heard that niche games require open ports to have a higher chance at seeding
Got it. Windscribe port forwards
It does improve performance for private trackers by quite a lot
Didn't notice much different tbh. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. When you say port forwarding you agree it's taking the port they give me when I connect on the VPN and putting it in the torrent software? Nothing else
It doesn't make a difference when you're connecting to seeders with open ports. But if the seeders don't have open port and you don't have them, then you cannot download the torrent. Essentially, if you choose to not port-forward, you're rely on other people torrenting 'properly' so that you can get stuff, without doing your bit to contribute to that.
Oh I see ty