Stick with mullvad

Mullvad only

Get something with port forwarding if you want to torrent. Unless the only things you’ll ever be downloading are the latest TV shows within days of their release or the latest movies you’ll sooner or later run into connectivity problems.

If you’re in or intend to be in a private tracker. Get a VPN with port forwarding, anything that sabotages your connectivity could be a death sentence to your ability to stay in that private tracker by hurting your ability to get a good ratio via uploading to others.

Mullvad does not allow port forwarding period so it is not good for the use case of torrenting.

Proton does allow port forwarding but only for the purposes of torrenting on their special p2p servers.

My opinion is all VPNs are deep cover intelligence operation honeypots. Only reason they’re allowed to exist and run and shrug at keeping “no logs” for copyright trolls.

I would avoid those like PIA that are zionist owned and whose profits benefit zionist firms obviously.

So my suggestions would be either:

• ProtonVPN for the port forwarding
• AirVPN for port forwarding (tends to be cheaper than proton, has been around a long time, has sales throughout the year with meaningful discounts)
• Your VPN of choice plus a paid seedbox (additional $8-$20/month)

One more thing. If you end up just running a torrent client, set qBittorrent’s advanced settings to bind to your VPN’s network adapter to prevent leaks. If you’re running docker or a stack solution there are things like gluetun.

edit: Someone else mentioned it so I will too. There will be Black Friday say in 2.5 months or less so extend your current VPN or buy a small amount then buy a larger amount like a year at that point. If you like the VPN you can re-up at the next sale for longer.

Airvpn for port forwarding, mullvad if you want performance and wide server availability.

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Extend your Mullvad sub until black Friday then make a choice between more Mullvad, Airvpn, and Protonvpn. Proton wins out on cost and benefits if you want their suite of tools like email. If you don’t, I’d stick with Mullvad. Proton has a lot of issues with their apps and services and a lot of them are really half baked and not ready for primetime. I’m still waiting on port-forwarding on the Mac and its been a year of their bullshit promises. VPN and email are very good though. SimpleLogin has cut my spam down to actually nothing.

for some reason my gluetun container (connected to deluge/transmission/qbittorrent containers) all stopped working this year with Mullvad despite about a million different config attempts, so I switched to airvpn on the recommendation of a friend and it’s been rock solid for almost a year. I want to say it was port forwarding that caused the issue but I think it was something else (it’s on the gluetun GitHub)

Mullvad was great for # of servers and client apps. Airvpn is less polished but just works™️, is cheaper long term, and imo has been a better use case if you want a seedbox

protonvpn if you can get it at a discount (they usually do black friday sales), mullvad otherwise

If you can only get one, you want proton. It costs as much as two though, so make sure no identifying information ties it back to you and don’t use crossable metadata for login or auth.

For general purposes get mulvad. Pay with cash. Why not set up a new account while you’re at it, always good to rotate those credentials.

For port forwarding air is cheap. Three or so bucks a month when you buy all at once.

Bind your interfaces if you’re doing port forwarding.

My only experiences have been with NordVPN and AirVPN as a “casual computer enjoyer.”

Switched to AirVPN as it was a bit cheaper than my NordVPN subscription and allowed for port forwarding. Has options for Linux, a UI based thing called Eddie that is mostly okay. I don’t do enough stuff through the Terminal to have actually worked through running the VPN through that option (which has a name but I can’t remember it, something to do with birds I think) as the instructions seemed to make it out to be a long chore.

AirVPN so far seems relatively stable, decent amount of servers worldwide, solid speeds for my internet shit posting and streaming uses. (Its been about six months on the service.) The non-discount price of the NordVPN subscription was a little bit higher than the AirVPN service when I switched by around $50 US.

About the only negative is the service, run through the Eddie UI, doesn’t seem to like it when my computer goes to sleep. After waking up, when trying to reconnect with a server, it will just constantly run through trying to connect to a server and failing until I manually click the “Cancel” button and “Connect” button.

Windscribe paid is also said to be good. I’m gonna buy a year or two next time it goes on sale and see. Everything is a la carte, so expect to have to pay more for port forwarding or whateverz