varies, occasionally I find it slow or one server to be bad on a particular day and I just switch servers. I hear Proton VPN is reliably faster but the issue with it is it changes ports all the time
I’m going to resub at 3 years old
so theoretically its better to run a VPN like proton that offers this feature because downloading/uploading speeds are faster? or has it bulit into said servers?
Quick question. Do you have to open the port on both the router and the VPN? I have Mullvad and think I’m going to switch tonight.
So I shouldn’t use express vpn the fact that my isp found out…
For those who want to stay anonymous and practice good OPSEC.
Account creation requiring email + doesn’t support cryptocurrency purchases Bitcoin/XMR.
Red flags everywhere on this one, no deal.
Does it change ports while you’re connected or what?
My biggest issue with proton so far is it would be more expensive.
I thought about making a new account and paying with a gift card for added anonymity but I’m not sure you get the deal with gift cards.
Not both downloading and uploading. You can get same downloading with or without port forwarding , but like I said, you can only get better uploading with port forwarding, that the reason people who want to get better upload find port forwarding supported provider. (Usually the want who use private tracker and want to seed to keep the best ratio they can)
The speed is also depend on ISP ↔ VPN server and network speed from VPN server to the world but we are talking port forwarding so I don’t mentio n it.
I was downloading torrent while using expressvpn…
We support crypto payments for our cloud storage plans, and will do when we release premium plans for the VPN.
For the account creation:
When registering for an account, the user must input their email address and password. It’s important to note that Internxt does not store passwords in their raw form.
Instead, we generate: A unique random key, 256-bit long (mnemonic), using the bip39 protocol used as the seed to derive any new encryption key, which is unique per file.
A pair of keys (private/public) using the ed25519 algorithm We encrypt the mnemonic with the user’s password and then hash the password, also, we encrypt the private user’s key with the mnemonic, everything on the client.
Then, we send that information to the backend. The password hashing process is as follows: A cryptographically secure random 256-character value is generated as a salt. The hash algorithm used is SHA-1. Iterations are set to 10,000.
More info can be found from our website.
I don’t know, just seen people talk about it being a pain
Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my question,its greatly appreciated!
Okay thanks for the info
I believe the recommended iterations is 100000 nowadays
yeh another benefit is how the bit torrent system is setup.
in a typical torrent, seeds will prioritize the leechers in the swarm that upload the most
open port = you uploading more = you getting higher speeds and priority over other leechers.
Can you open ports without accessing your router? reason why my ISP has it locked down.