VPN for seedbox recommendations (distress.digital)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by reinar@distress.digital to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello, fellow linux ISO enjoyers,

as you may know, Mullvad VPN is disabling port forwarding 1st of July, which is a pity if you are serious about building that ratio.

Are there any other fast torrent-friendly vpn's with the ability to port forward and ideally ipv6? I have quite a number of torrents in my seedbox and was pretty happy with Mullvad since I was consistently able to squeeze around 800Mbps symmetrical from it, however it's time to move on.

Short rationale:
• You already have a seedbox, why bother with VPN?
Dealing with DMCA is pain and any hosting, which is sending complaints to /dev/null, has insane hardware prices for more demanding users. My seedbox is serving as a media archive since I seed everything I have indefinitely.

• You won't get complaints if you're using private trackers
Entry-level trackers are not bulletproof, I'm still using TL a lot and really, really don't want to move 10's of TB's of shit if asked.

Long story short: VPN works. The question is - which one?

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[-] nivenkos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

as you may know, Mullvad VPN is disabling port forwarding 1st of July, which is a pity if you are serious about building that ratio.

Wow wtf I didn't know this.

Damn my ISP is being shit about allowing router access and port forwarding, so I was using their port forwarding as a way to get around that.

[-] reinar@distress.digital 5 points 1 year ago

Wow wtf I didn’t know this.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/
They already disabled the possibility to add new port forwards and will remove any existing ones completely on 1st of July.

[-] nivenkos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Damn, I'll try to contact my ISP tomorrow and try to sort out the static IP and port forwarding - literally I just use it for my hosting video games with my family and stuff.