Now that mullvad has ended support for port forwarding, where should one go for P2P ? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by SatisfyingOrange@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml

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I wanted to do some soulseek, but just as I began moving towards that this happened. What VPN should I use for this ? I don't want to use any of those over advertised shady VPNs like nordvpn (who was a spamming machine on my PC back when I used it) or surfshark or others if not necessary...

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[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info! If you just use vanilla OpenVPN/Wireguard with it then I'm guessing the port forwarding is something configured on the Njalla website, correct? That would be good news if true & opens up the possibility of setting it up on a router with port forward.

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You do not need to set up port forwarding on the website. They give each customer a static IP, so as long as you configure your ip tables to allow port forwarding, it just works on any port. QBittorrent worked out of the box.

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Here is the VPN setup page of Njalla. As you can see, it looks just as spartan as the public-facing parts of their website.

Njalla Interface

[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gotcha, that makes sense now. Some VPN services do sell a dedicated IP in which case yes you can basically open as many ports as you like since they are all forwarded. That's great to hear, they'll definitely be on my VPN list next time I'm looking around for one.