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VPN Recommendations? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using Mullvad for the past few months. Have not had many issues with it aside from the 5 device limit and the removal of port forwarding. I'm currently looking at Private Internet Access as a potential replacement. It looks like it offers 10 device limit and port forwarding included with the price.

Anyone using PIA? How's the experience?

Edit: Probably should have mentioned, feel free to offer any other recommendations, I'm not attached to, or against any specific recommendations. I would like it to have a GUI available on Linux though if possible.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Another vote here for ProtonVPN, though it doesn’t support port forwarding via a GUI on Linux, only OpenSSL and Wireguard configs. I set it up with gluetun, qBittorrent, and qBittorrent-natmap and and it just works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've heard that the open port rotates. Is that true? Because it will affect seeding.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You dynamically request "a port" from the vpn gateway and it returns your port number.
As long as your nat-pmp-client keeps refreshing the port, it should stay the same. The timeout is rather low (60s afaik) so it probably wouldn't survive restarts.

There's a docker image that automates this for qbittorrent, but it shouldn't be overly complicated to adapt the script to other clients, if they can be configured via an API.