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Also what's the safest/cheapest/possible free(?) VPN you can use to torrent? Thinking about doing that as Direct Download, while nice and more safe, can definitely be time consuming
I'd rather pay for a decent Usenet backbone and use exclusively SSL downloads than rely on a VPN with torrents.
You don't want a free VPN. I'd cough up for Mullvad if I was going that route.
Mullvad got rid of port-forwarding so it's not good for torrenting anymore. IVPN, which is where the Mullvad refugees fled to, just got rid of it as well. I think AirVPN is the next option people are flocking to, but who knows when they'll do that next.
I've also seen stuff about torrenting over I2P which shouldn't have this limitation, but I'm not sure how usable it is right this moment.
Why do I need port-forwarding for torrents?
Torrenting happily on Mullvad right now.
For peers to connect to each other, at least one of the two connecting needs to be port-forwarded, so if everyone were on Mullvad, now no one would be able to reach each other. Right now you can still torrent on Mullvad, but only with (non-Mullvad) users who use port-forwarding.
I did a quick bit of research and port forwarding allows for faster connections to peers, meaning you get faster downloads and should reach seed ratios quicker too. Apparently you need port forwarding for private trackers too.
I couldn't agree more. Usenet all the way.
Which one do you personally prefer? I used to use easynews and some giganews back in the day but dunno how the latest and greatest is these days.
It's been a couple years since I set it up so I couldn't tell you what's the best deal these days.
I use Newsdemon's 2tb/mo plan (Black Friday deal, it's almost free it was so cheap) and a Blocknews block for completion. I don't have any issues with downloads being incomplete but YMMV.
Nzbgeek indexer (lifetime sub), Sabnzbd downloader, and the full *arr suite for automation, and an Emby server running on my NAS.
Thanks for all the neatly packed info. Seems like I nailed with the indexer but will check the rest out. Cheers.
I just looked at the current offerings from Newsdemon and the deals are not nearly as sweet as the plan I'm on. I suspect that your best bet for a long-term subscription would be to wait until Black Friday, but there are plenty of providers with cheap blocks or monthly plans to play around with.
Mullvad is great
Rise Up VPN seems to work pretty well and is based on OpenVPN. It crashes less than my qbittorrent client so I've had minimal issues with it.
I'm more interested in paying for a VPN that isn't a subscription. Are there any good options?
VPN is one of the few "services" I'm happy to pay a subscription for. Because it's actually a service with ongoing costs.
Mullvad VPN
You prepay for it using digital currency, it's superfast, you can use it on all of your devices, you're spoiled for choice on how to use it, and there's a ton of options for location.
Without a doubt it's the best pay VPN that I've ever used
I switched to Mullvad after PIA got bought by that spyware company.
They're great.
I got a lifetime subscription to keepsolid VPN a few years ago £12 for up to 5 devices, figured if I got a year out of it then that's my money back, still going great now for me. Occasionally they do these lifetime subscription options for bargain price on stacksocial which is where I got mine. Worth keeping an eye out. There are better featured ones out there but all I want is something to funnel my Torrents and indexers through and this works fine on 150mb broadband I have with no speed drop.
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Not sure what you want here. A VPN which you can cancel each month? I just pay the Mullvad people some money in advance and get x months of VPN for it. Is that a subscription?
Windscribe. It's free but has a 10gb cap per month. I've used it plenty of times to torrent movies and they don't do logging.
Why would you need a free VPN? They are so cheap, and the safety and security and features that comes with a paid subscription is more than worth the very small yearly cost.
There isint. This is your moment, do you take the plunge and buy a vpn, sign your soul to a pirates life?
soul signing it is matey. Yarr
100 years before the mast!
Proton VPN has been good to me so far.
Protonvpn claim they have a few VPN. Honestly one of the easiest ways to torrent imo is to get a real Debrid subscription let them torrent them download the file through them without a VPN.