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I've got a big music library of CD rips that I'd like to share, but my ISP routes my traffic, meaning I can't forward shit to my computer. I can't change ISPs because I live in a functional monopoly and this is the only provider with reasonable data rates. Is there anything I can do to share? Thanks in advance!

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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A vpn with port forwarding should still work. Connection to the tunnel provider is inside-out, presents the vpn as the external host, then forwards traffic back down the tunnel. I know AirVPN has it still.

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Yep. Can confirm. I'm using AirVPN to do this

[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 3 points 1 year ago

Cool, I got that. Thanks!

[–] TornadoValley@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

You can use without port forwarding. Others without open ports won’t be able to upload to or download from you and give versa. There’s a sticky on the Reddit explaining this

If you can’t forward ports Soulseek will still work okay. Don’t let that stop you from joining

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been using soulseek for the last 6 months without port forwarding and plenty of people have downloaded a lot of stuff from me, however I have just switched to airvpn as well and can confirm now have port forwarding so Im hoping more people can access my files!

[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, I'd heard that you wouldn't be able to share at all in this case. Good to know.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I ran into issues with sometimes not being able to view some other users files when I requested a list of what they were sharing, but I don't really know the ins and outs of how it all works, I just know that plenty of people downloaded a lot of stuff from me so it must have been working for some people :)