Having a hard time settling on a VPN (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by DonnieDarkmode@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I torrent (on the same PC that I run a Plex server from), but also auto connect on my devices whenever I’m on public wifi, so speed and avoiding blocks/captchas is also important. From what I understand having port forwarding will make a big difference in my torrent transfer speeds and ability to connect to peers.

I’m currently using Nord, but I’d like to make the switch to a company with a better privacy track record. I’m still really drawn to PIA because of the speeds and port forwarding, but I know their ownership is pretty sketchy, even if there’s nothing to point to there (yet). Mullvad dropped port forwarding, which seems to leave ProtonVPN. But now I’m hearing that the influx of Russian users post-invasion has increased the number of sites and services that block PVPN servers?

It seems like despite the huge amount of choices, nothing checks all the boxes except PIA. Am I missing something, or misinformed?

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[-] WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Check out windscribe, they have port forwarding. Proton is great too. If you're on windows setting up port forwarding with their app is a breeze vs Linux which they are developing better at current.

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

~~I'm currently having a dumb issue if you'd happen to have some insight. I have windscribe. I'm using linux (debian). I installed the Windscribe package from the site and I have the same GUI I'm used to from Windows.~~

~~When I connect to my static IP, my ethernet IP doesn't change.~~

~~How do I ensure that I'm on my static IP in Linux so that I can actually use port-forwarding? Because at the moment I cannot turn on my VPN and have Plex, Overseer, any containers accessible outside my network. I can only see them on localhost. Eventually I'd like to get a domain redirect, but that's a separate issue that will be easier once I have a solid answer on getting my VPN always on and split tunneling in it set up properly.~~

~~I'm losing my shit here cause I can't find anything about this dumb problem online and it's such a simple thing that I'm used to just working lol.~~

Leaving that for posterity. I reread your comment. Their Linux app so looks to be parity equivalent with Windows, I believe both use your account online to set up port forwarding. However CLI Windscribe I believe is missing the option. But in any case, what you said my be related to the issue I'm having.

Anyway, fully +1 on Windscribe. I've been using them for years and they've always been quite to respond, transparent with what they've been served, and were active online on forums. Used a +50 code for quite some time and finally wanted unlimited and port-forwarding so I bought a sub and a static IP. Seems well priced as well, I'm paying about $25/year I think.

[-] DivisionResult@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

About tour técnical problem.

Just setup staticip un /etc/network/interfaces.

Search thatpath and static there is a lot of material about it.

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I did do that but then my global connection to Plex stopped working entirely and localhost stopped working as well. Granted, I hadn't set it up to the VPN's IP yet!

I'll keep this in mind for the next run, thank you so much!