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How important is port forwarding, actually? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by AVeryCleverName@lemmy.one to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've been putting off renewing my mullvad membership because of the port forwarding thing. I only want to use it for torrenting. Is it really crucial to find a VPN that supports port forwarding? If so, what's the go to option now that it's becoming increasingly uncommon?

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[-] ANIMATEK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

How do you use it? Why do you say it is not available? I am in Europe but I’ve never seen anybody report what you’re saying.

Like I said, it is limited to p2p applications. You cannot host a web server or something similar.

[-] joshh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Port forwarding isn’t available in the US, so I was curious if you’re in the country as well. But yeah if you’re in Europe then it makes sense that it’d be available to you!

[-] ANIMATEK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Try using this instead of the app

https://github.com/thrnz/docker-wireguard-pia

It’s a lot more technical but it’s worth trying.

[-] joshh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’m actually using that exact same docker image :) port forwarding still doesn’t work within the US though. I love the speeds I get from Wireguard compared to OpenVPN though.