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[–] Tja@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

NordVPN (and every other vpn, honestly) is good for torrents, they even have dedicated torrent nodes. I got a multi-year thing, for under 3 euros a month.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

NordVPN is not good for torrents, they don't support port forwarding

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

intersting thnkas

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

How is STUN relevant here?

Edit: I see it can be used for hole punching. However, port forwarding directly is a much more elegant solution I feel

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Can you explain how port forwarding is used for torrenting and how it works with other VPNs?

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Basically, if you aren't port forwarded, you will get less peers. This is because you aren't allowing incoming traffic, so only other port forwarded peers can talk to you. If you are port forwarded, you get all the peers.

With vpns that support port forwarding, you can set the port forwarded port on the VPN to the port in your bittorrent client and it will allow incoming traffic.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 3 points 19 hours ago

Interesting, thanks for answering me. I didn't know about this.