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this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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honestly you are going to be fine with most VPN providers. Unless you are one of the members of the very big scene groups, you are just seeding and your threat model is just to mask your connections from your ISP.
I personally suggest to use njalla. Few people talk about it but it's a very very good provider, better than mullvad imho. Allows port forwarding, is transparent about legal requests and have a history of support with the piratebay. On top of that paypal denied payments to them for a period, and that is usually a good sign
That's interesting, their website barely mentions any features about the VPN so I had assumed they don't offer port forward. Just curious
Since my airvpn test month expired, I've just bought a Njalla subscription. Here are my experiences:
Pro:
Contra:
Conclusion: for my usecase (Raspberry-Pi-based torrent box) Njalla looks great. If you want to use it on multiple devices or need to circumvent geoblocks, you should look for a different service.
Thanks for the info! If you just use vanilla OpenVPN/Wireguard with it then I'm guessing the port forwarding is something configured on the Njalla website, correct? That would be good news if true & opens up the possibility of setting it up on a router with port forward.
You do not need to set up port forwarding on the website. They give each customer a static IP, so as long as you configure your ip tables to allow port forwarding, it just works on any port. QBittorrent worked out of the box.
Here is the VPN setup page of Njalla. As you can see, it looks just as spartan as the public-facing parts of their website.
Gotcha, that makes sense now. Some VPN services do sell a dedicated IP in which case yes you can basically open as many ports as you like since they are all forwarded. That's great to hear, they'll definitely be on my VPN list next time I'm looking around for one.