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(LINUX USER)What VPNs would you lovely people recommend? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Hello all!

I have been out of the piracy game since a little before mullvad lost port-forwarding; I know these things are ever changing, and to my understanding ivpn is a good bet at this moment in time.

I was wondering what everyone else has been using. As well as if anyone has tried the gui client for ivpn either built from source or the AUR build(I do use arch btw).

I am open to any vpn client that has a good reputation in the community, and build-able from a repository; A gui is preferred but not necessary, and absolutely NO account creation (Except for generic account numbers of course).

Thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to answer.

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[–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Sorry to spam the instance with a FAQ. I may of been misinformed, I was under the impression it was difficult to seed easily with Mullvad now. Also I was curious if anyone had recommendations with good Linux clients, not just the service itself; It seems IVPN or Mullvad will be the best all around option for me, if I do go the VPN route.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can confirm that seeding with mullvad is painfully slow, if you do torrent locally get a VPN with port forwarding.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    What does port forwarding do in this case? A lot of ppl are mentioning it.... "And at this point I'm too afraid to ask"

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Honestly same, I just know that the speeds were better when the port forwarding worked.

    I think it just makes the service visible to devices from outside the network which helps them form a more direct connection. (That's just an educated guess though)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I only read the title and love Mullvad but for torrenting I’d absolutely recommend a seedbox instead. Some ones I can recommend are Whatbox.ca if you’re in North America or Seedhost if you’re in the EU. Feralhosting isn’t bad either specially for the price.

    I started with Feralhosting but decided I wanted to try racing and bought a custom tuned server. Then I realized I didn’t want to pay $100 a month and switched to Chmuranet (sp?) and didn’t like how they treated their customers. Then I tried Seedhost which was great but the peering to North America wasn’t ideal. Finally I ended up with Whatbox and I’ve been happy with them ever since.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago

    Thanks for the information, I will definitely look into those! I used to use Mullvad for torrenting for a number of years, the Linux client worked very well, no leaks, and the Killswitch was effective through manual testing.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Mullvad doesn't have port forwarding anymore. As long as you don't want to leech top secret dark net torrents that only 3 people have in the world, you're absolutely fine.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    or use any private trackers at all lol

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you're on a VPN, why would it matter, genuinely curious?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Private trackers are based on seeding back what you leech, and if you can't port forward it is far far harder to do that, and so you may get banned of your ratio of downloaded to uploaded gets too low.

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