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Other than torrenting what else do you use port-forwarding for?
Hosting services behind a VPN I suppose
That's it mainly. Port forwarding improves my torrenting enough to where I get better reliability.
Why not a seedbox?
My internet isnt fast enough, My average download speed for the entire place is maybe 18 MB/s, and 0.5 MB/s upload.
Torrenting helps solve the problem as I can just tell it to download in chunks and then turn it off when I need more leg room on my copper wire internet from 2003 that AT&T doesn't change.
I have some of the slowest speeds where 4G Data is a massive upgrade, so when I need to offload some jpgs to discord or something, its faster if I just send them to my phone and upload that way.