• ayaya
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    51 year ago

    Mullvad no longer supports port forwarding, making it completely useless for torrenting which is my main use case.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      I find this interesting because I use Mozilla VPN, which is just rebranded Mullvad, and qBittorrent works just fine on it.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        You can torrent without portforwarding. The only issue is on rare Linux isos. You potentially will have trouble discovering new peers. At least one person will need portforwarding.

      • @Lord_Boffum
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        1 year ago

        It’s more that effective seeding is very hard without a forwarded port. If you only leech, you’ll be fine. But that’s not how the system is envisioned.

          • @Lord_Boffum
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            11 year ago

            Can’t really help you there, I haven’t used Soulseek before.

          • @Lord_Boffum
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            11 year ago

            I linked a Docker Container elsewhere in this topic that works with Proton’s implementation of port forwarding. Proton’s price is the same as Mullvad too. That would be my recommendation.

      • @Lord_Boffum
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        61 year ago

        Had to leave MV because of this. I went to Proton, though I did need special software to support its form of port forwarding without introducing a regular hassle. All good now, mostly.

        • umami_wasabi
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          11 year ago

          I was looking at Proton too but I’m already a customer and the VPN is going to be shared with family members. I worries if they can access my mail if I share my account.

          • @Lord_Boffum
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            21 year ago

            You can get around this by generating the files for OpenVPN or Wireguard for them and sending those.

        • ayaya
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          11 year ago

          Yep I use the binhex container too, makes everything really easy to set up.