Currently I have NordVPN (still in the 30 day trial period) and I was wondering if there were any better options that allow port forwarding for faster torrents.
I use NordVPN in a Linux container on proxmox and I really like the CLI version I’m able to use.
So far I’ve found that airvpn and protonvpn both allow port forwarding, which are both included in the base memberships as far as I can tell. Are there any better options, and if not, which is the better option especially given that I’d like to run it in a Linux CLI interface?
EDIT: I ended up going with AirVPN over Proton VPN due to the static port forwarding they allowed. Speeds are great so far.
I use Windscribe and while I’ve not gone down the port fwd road yet but will soon. I do know it’s possible but from what I’ve read is you have to renew it every week. I was able to get a very affordable price like $27 for one year for 3 years during there black Friday sale.
Been using Windscribe for a while and it works great. You’ll have to renew the port every 7 days, which is as easy as going to the site and requesting a new matching port, then enter it in your client. They’ll have some pretty decent deals around the year, got my subscription for €30 something.
I have ipa but ever since, the outage the other day and that patch they applied. Things have not been the same . hopefully it gets fully fixed. Other then that. I get good speeds with them I get about 450Mbps down out of my 1Gb line .
I’ve been using this too, but their Mac app is buggy as hell. Has been causing multiple kernel panics per day. Now I need to also search for an alternative.
“On MacOS, split tunneling is available only on versions (OSX) 10.12 to 10.15”. So if anyone out there on Mac wants to use split tunneling on an application basis, you need to be on a super old mac OS
I use Torguard as well. Reasonably priced and they have great customer support. They worked with a moron like me through a lot of setup issues with plex and qbittorrent.
Disconnects every 5-10min and the speeds are 10MB/s down MAX and 1MB/s up best case scenario… Absolutely useless VPN I’ve never tried such a shitty provider in my life…
If both peers don’t have port forwarded they can’t connect to each other so effectively it’s limiting peers pool.
Port forwarding in some cases also affect speed new peers connects.
How do you set a primary location? Like I live in Florida how do I set it up when I log in it will automatically connect to the fastest server near me?
I use it through TrueNas Scale so my config will probably be a little different. You will probably have to login to their site to request a port for port forwarding, not sure how from CLI side. Then you should be able to export a config file from their config generator.