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

submitted 2 years 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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[-] dinosaurdynasty@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

This isn't quite true, if three peers support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Transport_Protocol, a third peer that has a port forward can act as a STUN server for the two peers without and let them connect directly to each other.

I don't know how well it works in practice, but Transmission supports it so I'll rely on it while this whole PF business settles down.

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