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?

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I notice the difference with it off. Its shit without it. I get no incoming connections to existing torrents I’m seeding and when I add a new magnet link it just stays stuck on obtaining metadata and never Downloads.

    When I have the port forwarded it runs like clockwork.

    My setup is containerized with a gluetun container acting as the VPN network and the interface binded inside the qbittorrent container. .