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?

  • karce@wizanons.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So I’ve decided to stop paying for VPNs or Seedboxes recently after the mullvad news. I setup i2p and now just do torrenting exclusively through there. It is private and self-hosted, so no dealing with dmca notices. I believe i2p is the future of torrenting.

    • poncho@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      i2p? Really? It’s painfully slow for browsing alone… I can’t imagine it’s much better when downloading torrents.

    • DoodadMaker531@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      you got a guide you could link to? I tried getting into i2p before but I dont see the immediate connection between i2p and torrenting.

      Thanks in advance.

      • karce@wizanons.devEnglish
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        1 year ago

        So there are 2 main implementations of i2p. First is the main dev’s Java client here https://geti2p.net/en/download

        The other is i2pd, which is C++.

        I use the Java one personally but both would work. Someone posted back on reddit a guide on /r/i2p for qbittorrent, which is what I use now for this too. The guide was shared as a public torrent you can download with this info hash: 3f1d51095f9b116739172c1bced149acf2b10692

        Use that hash with any of the various public trackers and you should be able to download that guide.

        But if you just want a basic setup, that Java client comes with i2psnark, which is a bittorrent client already setup.

        The only other thing you want to do is go and search the biggest tracker for stuff, which is called PaTracker, Postman’s tracker. http://tracker2.postman.i2p, only accessible from i2p itself, which you’ll need to have setup and running first to view.