submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by pirat@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] alphafalcon@feddit.de 5 points 2 years 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.