Hey everyone,

My mullvad sub is about to expire, so I’m deciding whether to just pre-pay for another year or switch to something else. I typically just use it for blanket protection when using my computer or phone, but have been thinking I might like to set up a torrent box proxied through a VPN, too. (I have kids, so I may not have time for this for a while, tbh.)

My general understanding is that people like mullvad and also like ProtonVPN. Any general suggestions/thoughts?

  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    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.