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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.