What makes the "best VPN for torrenting”?

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Looking for the "best VPN for torrenting” on Reddit I see a lot of people putting an emphasis on port forwarding. Surfshark doesn’t do this but I do use it to torrent via qBittorrent which works fine. I use Wireguard and choose the P2P server that’s closest to me which gets me around 80-90% of my usual speeds. A couple gigabyte torrent will take a few minutes longer to download than it would with the VPN off. How much better could it be with port forwarding, and why? Or is speed not the main point to consider here?

I’ve also read about possible security risks with port forwarding - doesn’t the VPN have to keep a log of which port forwards to which user? I might be mistaken though.

I guess you could also phrase my question as how important is port forwarding for the "best VPN for torrenting”? Considering Surfshark works fine for torrenting for me without

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I’m not an expert, just a regular VPN user with lots of PC knowledge. I just enable the VPN, bind the torrent program to the VPN network adapter and then I’m good to go. No need for port forwarding or proxies etc.

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What makes the "best VPN for torrenting”?

No need to write a lot to answer it.

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  1. No logs
  2. You trust the provider
  3. Speedy servers
  4. Safe servers ( like ram only encrypted and stuff )
  5. Optionally a good kill switch if you dont bind the VPN on the torrent client.

Port forwarding can be neccessary on some VPN as in how they configured their networks but most it isnt really needed.

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Ram Only Servers, not a must but much more secure
Lots of P2P servers, all of Surfsharks servers support P2P
The provider doesn’t have bad history.

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how does one “bind the torrent program to the VPN network adapter?”

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So basically surfshark isn’t the best then because:

  1. They keep logs (support members could access my technical data sent … over 3 months ago, despite the screen saying the data is deleted upon closing of the support session)
  2. I don’t trust the provider due to the above and other issues
  3. Servers are indeed speedy when they work
  4. Another plus
  5. The killswitch doesn’t work in combination with their whitelister (confirmed by support member to be the case)

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Port forwarding isn’t supported on surfshark at the moment, again support member confirmed this.