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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?

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[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 2 points 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 2 points 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.