Cost, ease of use, speed, other good features, etc.

    • Linguist@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I forget about port forwarding because I never get to seed because of my abysmal upload speed.

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        5 months ago

        I understand completely. I believe my speed is 175/10, so although the download is great, the upload is rather pitiful. Even with PF, I still get maybe a total upload of anywhere from 500 KiB/s–1 MiB/s according to qBittorrent.

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      5 months ago

      Mullvad got rid of their port forwarding.

      So did IVPN. Use Proton VPN now.

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        5 months ago

        Not only is UPnP a security risk, it’ll work only if a user has an IP that can expose ports. IPv4 addresses are becoming rarer on home networks and CGNAT connections can’t expose ports even if one turns on UPnP.

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        4 months ago

        UPnP is widely considered to be a significant security risk, just FYI. Because it allows any random device on your network to poke holes in your firewall whenever they want. You should go disable it on your router.

        Plus UPnP doesn’t work in a lot of configurations. CGNAT, for instance, blocks UPnP.