Hello, fellow linux ISO enjoyers,

as you may know, Mullvad VPN is disabling port forwarding 1st of July, which is a pity if you are serious about building that ratio.

Are there any other fast torrent-friendly vpn’s with the ability to port forward and ideally ipv6? I have quite a number of torrents in my seedbox and was pretty happy with Mullvad since I was consistently able to squeeze around 800Mbps symmetrical from it, however it’s time to move on.

Short rationale:
• You already have a seedbox, why bother with VPN?
Dealing with DMCA is pain and any hosting, which is sending complaints to /dev/null, has insane hardware prices for more demanding users. My seedbox is serving as a media archive since I seed everything I have indefinitely.

• You won’t get complaints if you’re using private trackers
Entry-level trackers are not bulletproof, I’m still using TL a lot and really, really don’t want to move 10’s of TB’s of shit if asked.

Long story short: VPN works. The question is - which one?

  • karce@wizanons.devEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    So I’ve decided to stop paying for VPNs or Seedboxes recently after the mullvad news. I setup i2p and now just do torrenting exclusively through there. It is private and self-hosted, so no dealing with dmca notices. I believe i2p is the future of torrenting.

    • DoodadMaker531@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      you got a guide you could link to? I tried getting into i2p before but I dont see the immediate connection between i2p and torrenting.

      Thanks in advance.

      • karce@wizanons.devEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        So there are 2 main implementations of i2p. First is the main dev’s Java client here https://geti2p.net/en/download

        The other is i2pd, which is C++.

        I use the Java one personally but both would work. Someone posted back on reddit a guide on /r/i2p for qbittorrent, which is what I use now for this too. The guide was shared as a public torrent you can download with this info hash: 3f1d51095f9b116739172c1bced149acf2b10692

        Use that hash with any of the various public trackers and you should be able to download that guide.

        But if you just want a basic setup, that Java client comes with i2psnark, which is a bittorrent client already setup.

        The only other thing you want to do is go and search the biggest tracker for stuff, which is called PaTracker, Postman’s tracker. http://tracker2.postman.i2p, only accessible from i2p itself, which you’ll need to have setup and running first to view.

    • poncho@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      i2p? Really? It’s painfully slow for browsing alone… I can’t imagine it’s much better when downloading torrents.

    • jandefris@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think a couple of years ago I read a lengthy privacy review of VPN providers and AirVPN was part of the “13 eyes”.

      They claim not to keep logs but who knows. I use them since it’s just to keep a torrent server and also use it for streaming content in different countries. They do have an extensive list of available servers around the world and the bandwidth is pretty good.

      My 2 cents!

      • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        If you mean part of the 14 eyes, it wouldn’t really be AirVPN that’s part of it, but rather the government of the nation they’re located in (Italy I think?). It means nothing about AirVPN itself, unless they do actually keep logs, in which case it’d mean that other 14 eyes member nations can ask the Italian government to tell AirVPN to hand over the logs pertaining to some citizen of their own nation that they can’t otherwise spy on.

  • Zeku@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for the post, I didn’t know about that at all.

    Privacy Guides are recommending IVPN: Link

    I think I will be switching there. Any experiences with their service?

  • Avuja@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Went with Proton since already using mail. Specifically has an icon indicating servers to use with P2P in the apps. Not the cheapest and the Linux app is lacking but otherwise no complaints, comparable to mullvad.

    • collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I also use proton, only because I started using it for free to watch region locked shit. haven’t tried any others. note- none of the free servers support p2p traffic

      • CapnAssHolo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s weird cos I to torrent on ProtonVPN free all the time. However if I try to download more than 1 torrent at a time both torrent stops.