There are providers that do not provide you your own IPv4 address, with a feature called "CGNAT". Often, they will then block you from port-forwarding altogether.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

that is wild, man

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Bc $$$.

My provider won’t allow it unless I pay them $15/mo extra.

You can change the setting on your router anytime but it won’t work if your ISP doesn’t actually allow it.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Cyprus, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Singapore, and Sweden. They all spit in the eye of DMCA.

VPS in any of these countries, or just find a provider that doesn't care about torrenting. If you go the VPS option, run your own VPN and just look for a VPS that allows considerable traffic. A quick example, Ultahost (Netherlands) offers a VPS with unlimited bandwidth for $7/mo if you pay for 3 years in advance. Like sure, now you're paying to torrent, but I would rather pay $7/mo to protect myself with a VPN that I control vs worrying about port forwarding and getting DMCA's in the mail. 🤷‍♂️ I guess it depends on how much skin you want in the game.

[–] Sam@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

Do you have a source about the Netherlands? I thought this had changed in 2014

[–] ntn888@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

That's exactly what I did. Better yet I routed it though a wireguard tunnel! I documented the process here.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

IPv6. My stupid ISP actually shipped their router with all inbound ipv6 blocked with no way to unblock it, so I set up opnsense. Works like a charm!

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 5 days ago

At least your stupid ISP has IPv6. Mine doesn't (yet).

[–] clove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How does IPV6 makes port forwarding possible?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's not v6 itself, it's rather lack of layers of nat that prevent forwarding a v4 for most folks.

[–] clove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hmm, so no firewall in the router blocking ports, instead blocking happens on the actual client?

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Port forwarding is necessary due to NAT not firewalls.

It's not that your router blocks new incoming connections at port X, it's that it does not know which local client it's meant for, since it's addressed to the public IP that is held by your router.

With IP6 it's lan client also gets assigned a public IP6 address (as there are plenty) and so the router receives a connection addressed to a Lan client and knows where to route it.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm very uneducated about this stuff. How does IPV6 fix that issue?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 5 days ago

It doesn't fix it, per se, rather removes the need for layers of hacks such as nat and cg-nat. Every device gets a globally routable IP - no need to forward anything, just open the port you want.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

The best solution IMO are seedboxes

We also have a community dedicated to them: !seedboxes@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] R0gueS4t3llite@infosec.pub 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

As someone who has recently started seeding as much as I can, this is a great question to which I don't have the answer.

I am not renewing my Proton yearly subscription after it ends due to recent developments. They seem to be the only "big name" VPN with the port forwarding feature. I heard of OpenVPN, but have not had a chance to dig into it too much.

My ISP does not provide IPV6 support, so this will be pretty important to sort out soon.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I've been happily using Windscribe for a while now, they have port forwarding with a dedicated IP. Averaging out the separate charges, it's about $4 USD/month for a custom plan (1 location + unlimited data) + dedicated IP. Technically their Pro tier includes ephemeral port forwarding, but I don't like how it works.

[–] Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Airvpn offers port forwarding

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Aren't they located in Italy, the Shithole that keeps trying to outlaw all VPNs and/or force them to provide backdoors and identifiable customers? They can only be stopped so many times before they succeed...

[–] Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah it's a bit of a "for now" thing and worth keeping an eye on Italy. To their credit, they don't offer services in Italy itself anymore after the "privacy shield" bullshit because "it goes against their mission" (for what that's worth lol)

Afaik, there's not many other choices for port forwarding

[–] JayGray91@fedia.io -1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I use Private Internet Access (PIA) and that has port forwarding. I read something about it on reddit but forgot about it, so idk of there's anything bad it controversial surrounding PIA.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

There is, just not in relation to piracy. The concerns are more over its financial incentives/ownership and privacy.

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

They got bought by a malvertising company a few years ago. It's what made me drop them after being a customer of theirs for years.

[–] bigDottee@geekroom.tech 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I seem to be out of the loop in regards to proton controversy and I haven’t found anything outstanding against them…

Can you help me understand what you’re specifically referring to? I’m a proton user… so kinda want to know lol

[–] Nursery2787@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

CEO is a libertarian idiot who can’t see any difference between American Republicans and Democrats. CEO doesn’t have absolute control of proton, that’s a board of other privacy advocates. Proton as a service provider is still safe despite their CEO being a political twit.

IMO: A libertarian who doesn’t understand any value in why a government could possibly be good is the kind of person I want running an encryption service company. Wouldn’t trust him for running anything else though.

Devils advocate: Both parties love the alphabet agencies unconditionally and historically saw no problem with them. Still waiting for the Snowden wrist slap to happen. He is a bigger idiot for not letting public relations for the company handle his opinion.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Proton as a service provider is still safe despite their CEO being a political twit.

That twit was allowed to use the company's Mastodon account to double-down on his shitty political post

[–] Nursery2787@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I’ll wait for him to start telling Engineers that the encryption infrastructure has to be done his way. And telling the proton board that the engineers are all liars.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

as far as I can tell their CEO is a semi alt right cunt. Apart from that everythin seems pretty okay and the recent shift to nonprofit status is cool

[–] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

😂 does everything have to be political now? I don't care if the dude is a space alien who birthed Hitler, if the service is solid, I'm using it.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It has always been. FOSS is by itself political, just beyond the basic binary logic of left/right.

Your apoliticism is a political instance as well. Take for instance this quoute from Desmond Tutu "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

I'm not saying you have to ditch Proton over their CEO's takes, my point is that thinking that everything suddenly became political is naive.

[–] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's all so tiring

[–] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

How do you think the people that are directly affected feel about it?

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Nobody said trying to lead an ethical life was a vacation

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Everything has always been political. Just because you're too privileged to notice that until someone mentions a viewpoint you dislike doesn't mean anything except that you're usually oblivious.

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Look in to i2p

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 0 points 4 days ago

TIL it's not L2P, as in "Learn 2 Peer"

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

~~I have looked into i2p and find it not easy to understand and use. I have yet to download something successfully using it.~~

Confused it with ipfs.

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I2P is IMO the future for torrenting. The only downside it still has is that their is less content. But that will be solved when more and more people migrate to I2P

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I tried ipfs and have not managed to download a single file or where I might find them. How is I2P?

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I2p is fairly easy to use. The normal I2P client even comes with a torrent client bundled. Also URLs for postman aka best torrent site are included.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Is there something like deluge for i2p?

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've never used port forwarding. Everything works fine

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

That's for downloading, but it you want to upload/seed, then you would need port forwarding.

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