Yeah, I switched to them after mullvad (i
I also tried airvpn before Proton) and it works great.
One extremely annoying thing with Proton VPN is that the port changes after every single (re)connection so you need to reconfigure your torrent client.
Fortunately there is a fork of the VPN client I use which automatically configures qbittorrent with the new port.
Yeah, slight inconvenience there, but like you point out there’s ways around it. In my docker setup, I’ve got a container that takes the random port from gluetun and drops it into qbittorrent.
On linux there’s a bash script for port forwarding, and if you execute it right after reboot (preferably via cron) it’ll be the same port as before reboot.
Oh do they now …? How much are they? My PIA will be expiring next year and I’m not liking for they’re shying away from port forwarding (especially on the android tv app)
I feel like they’re going to pu$$y out and pull a Mullvad soon.
Proton’s great for torrenting since they support port forwarding for their paid tiers.
Yeah, I switched to them after mullvad (i I also tried airvpn before Proton) and it works great.
One extremely annoying thing with Proton VPN is that the port changes after every single (re)connection so you need to reconfigure your torrent client.
Fortunately there is a fork of the VPN client I use which automatically configures qbittorrent with the new port.
Yeah, slight inconvenience there, but like you point out there’s ways around it. In my docker setup, I’ve got a container that takes the random port from gluetun and drops it into qbittorrent.
I have this problem as well, been joking to myself that it’s “the price I pay” for using an otherwise fantastic VPN lol.
How come you switched to them from Mullvad?
They removed port forwarding.
On linux there’s a bash script for port forwarding, and if you execute it right after reboot (preferably via cron) it’ll be the same port as before reboot.
Definitely gonna have to look into this.
Oh do they now …? How much are they? My PIA will be expiring next year and I’m not liking for they’re shying away from port forwarding (especially on the android tv app)
I feel like they’re going to pu$$y out and pull a Mullvad soon.
They’re (PIA) also owned by an ad company…
Yeah but maybe they’ll faster and not dick around with port forwarding
Pull a mullvad? What did mullvad do? I thought they were still one of the best
They pulled port forwarding support so now they’re useless for torrents
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/
Ah. OK thanks. Usenet is way better than torrents imo so I haven’t needed a vpn in over a decade.
Man I really gotta look into that further…