penguin202124 (he/him) to linuxmemesEnglish • 11 days agoAh yes, TempleOS, my favourite distrosh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square115fedilinkarrow-up1460arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1456arrow-down1imageAh yes, TempleOS, my favourite distrosh.itjust.workspenguin202124 (he/him) to linuxmemesEnglish • 11 days agomessage-square115fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-210 days agoTorrenting works fine without port forwarding, thats what trackers are for. Forwarding won’t make your downloads any faster.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•9 days agoYou can just try it for yourself, use a VPN but dont do port forwarding and grab your favorite Linux iso, see if you notice a difference.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•9 days agoTheir forwarding might make your downloads faster.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•9 days agoIf you don’t have port forwarding, you can only connect to peers that do. If you have port forwarding, there’s more potential peers to connect to. So yes it can make downloads faster.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-29 days agoThat just isn’t true anymore, you can test for yourself.
Torrenting works fine without port forwarding, thats what trackers are for. Forwarding won’t make your downloads any faster.
That’s not what I’ve read on the subject.
You can just try it for yourself, use a VPN but dont do port forwarding and grab your favorite Linux iso, see if you notice a difference.
Their forwarding might make your downloads faster.
If you don’t have port forwarding, you can only connect to peers that do.
If you have port forwarding, there’s more potential peers to connect to. So yes it can make downloads faster.
That just isn’t true anymore, you can test for yourself.