I’m mainly only using it for p2p, everything else is secondary. Portforwarding is necessary though.
Edit: Decided on AirVPN. It wasn’t too pricy, only 2 dollars above my current Usenet + Indexer plan.
Just learned about the removal of port forwarding. Damn this sucks.
I’ve had mullvad for years but never forwarded a port. What’s the use case? Like if a game won’t connect properly or something? Just curious what I’m missing out on
It’s useful for opening up ports for Bittorrent, which is the main reason Mullvad is deciding to shut them down.
Nah, they’re shutting off port-forwarding because there were probably a bunch of users abusing the service and using it to distribute CSAM, and they got tired of having law enforcement at their door. Port-forwarding itself isn’t inherently bad, but when it’s used for that purpose it is.
Can’t access it now because the subreddit is private, but I remember that IVPN and AirVPN are recommended. I think ProtonVPN is too, but the port forwarding might be a bit of a hassle depending on your OS. CryptoStorm used to be recommended, but was removed because of “lack of recent activity”, whatever the hell that means.
I use Proton VPN, but it’s not free.
It’s pretty much the best free VPN I know of, but the free tier doesn’t allows P2P/torrential.
PIA allows port forwarding in certain country exit points
Good choice on AirVPN, never had a single issue with them in the 6 years I’ve used it.
I have been considering switching to Proton.
I’ve been using AirVPN for seven years with few problems. I’d recommend waiting for one of their big sales (Halloween, Black Friday, Christmas, anniversary sale) to buy a two or three year plan.
What are you using for Usenet?
Eweka + NZBGeek Eweka has a massive sale, but I can’t find it because it’s on a privated Reddit sub.
