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?

  • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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    1 year ago

    It’s important for rare/poorly seeded torrents, but not at all important if it’s a new release movie or something like that which will be well seeded.

    • SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      For me it’s incredibly important. If I don’t have port forwarding my status on qbit is restricted and I get like 10% of the speed I do when it’s open. This is for big torrents

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      True but this’ll only work long term if you download every new thing that you’ll want to watch now or sometime down the road.