Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com Rabbit @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1y ago

What are good mullvadvpn alternatives with port forwarding

Finding that torrent sometimes don't download at all despite seeders being present, so having to look around.

I had seen ivpn recommended before, but they don't allow port forwarding anymore.

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According to r/VPNTorrents, Proton and AirVPN are the only recommended VPNs since they are the only well-established privacy-respecting ones left that still have port-forwarding. New ones are popping up with promise, like Azire and a couple others, but time will tell. As for Proton, I decided against it because of its limited port forwarding and lack of IPv6 compatibility and settled on AirVPN But Proton has genuinely great products if you're interested in the full suite. AirVPN, in my opinion, is just the last great VPN. Open-source & fully featured client, run by activists, anonymous accounts, crypto purchasing, IPv6 compatibility, full port forwarding, great support, Tor integration, the list goes on.
- You can add Windscribe to that list. They've been shown to respect customers and offer port forwarding.
  
  I think people forget how trash windscribe was for years or that they had one of their servers seized and private keys stolen in 2021.
  
  They have made a lot of progress but its still odd how people ignore their past history.
  
  They're super transparent with whatever they have going on with them. They had one probe within the last couple years but they don't keep logs so I'm not sure anything bad for the users is possible, and what VPN hasn't been asked for it's information lol
- Is Nord not considered privacy-respecting anymore?
- Damn, I didnt have that good reasons, but I also got AirVPN (;
- Well-recommended. Thanks for the information!
I use AirVPN
I use azire now. Works well so far.
- I don't really see people recommending Azire. How are the speeds?
  
  I like how they have an api for stuff like port forwarding etc (albeit with mediocre documentation), and how they use all their own servers.
  
  So far I could always max out my connection, it is only 100Mbit/s tho.
- Been thinking about trying Azire, do they provide static ports?
  
  No, the ports expire, but you can script the renewal / new port process via their API. I want to set up a job that gets a new port like 1x per week and tells it to the applicating using the port. Haven't done that yet. So far my port stayed active for like a month.
AirVPN is great
I use proton with a decent amount of success, although I have had trouble with connectibility.
- do you find the protonvpn server is quite unstable?
  
  The speed can fluctuate as users pop on and off a server, but in general I have gotten excellent speeds (100mbps+). If ever I am getting poor throughput I swap to a different random server until I get what I need. I do not torrent with it though so I am not sure how it fares with that use.
  
  I have not. Especially with the desktop client, which automatically will switch to another server if you get dropped. As far as speeds, I've also never noticed a problem but my bottleneck is my ISP so it's hard to know.
AirVPN

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