The first thing I do with my isp provided modem is set it to bridge mode.
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We just need to add I2P directly into the client in a way that's transparent to the user and all the problems are solved.
How does the I2P architecture solve the port forwarding issue. Is peer discovery easier within I2P?
I2P has a mechanism where if you can't open a port, another I2P router can help with NAT hole punching so that you can establish a connection.
In practice this means I2P users can be equally well connected regardless of being able to open a port.
But, unfortunately I2P is very slow. But maybe it's just because there's few people running routers, on slow networks?
In any case, it would be beneficial to have it easily accessible to everyone, so that copyright holders can go pound sand.
Edit: When you couldn't open ports for I2P, the I2P router will have the "Network: Firewalled" status. This is the description of this status on the router dashboard:
Firewalled: Your UDP port appears to be firewalled. As the firewall detection methods are not 100% reliable, this may occasionally be displayed in error. However, if it appears consistently, you should check whether both your external and internal firewalls are open for your port. I2P will work fine when firewalled, there is no reason for concern. When firewalled, the router uses "introducers" to relay inbound connections. However, you will get more participating traffic and help the network if you open your firewall. If you think you have already done so, remember that you may have both a hardware and a software firewall, or be behind an additional, institutional firewall you cannot control. Also, some routers cannot correctly forward both TCP and UDP on a single port, or may have other limitations or bugs that prevent them from passing traffic through to I2P.
Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Cyprus, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Singapore, and Sweden. They all spit in the eye of DMCA.
VPS in any of these countries, or just find a provider that doesn't care about torrenting. If you go the VPS option, run your own VPN and just look for a VPS that allows considerable traffic. A quick example, Ultahost (Netherlands) offers a VPS with unlimited bandwidth for $7/mo if you pay for 3 years in advance. Like sure, now you're paying to torrent, but I would rather pay $7/mo to protect myself with a VPN that I control vs worrying about port forwarding and getting DMCA's in the mail. 🤷♂️ I guess it depends on how much skin you want in the game.
Do you have a source about the Netherlands? I thought this had changed in 2014
That's exactly what I did. Better yet I routed it though a wireguard tunnel! I documented the process here.
As someone who has recently started seeding as much as I can, this is a great question to which I don't have the answer.
I am not renewing my Proton yearly subscription after it ends due to recent developments. They seem to be the only "big name" VPN with the port forwarding feature. I heard of OpenVPN, but have not had a chance to dig into it too much.
My ISP does not provide IPV6 support, so this will be pretty important to sort out soon.
I seem to be out of the loop in regards to proton controversy and I haven’t found anything outstanding against them…
Can you help me understand what you’re specifically referring to? I’m a proton user… so kinda want to know lol
as far as I can tell their CEO is a semi alt right cunt. Apart from that everythin seems pretty okay and the recent shift to nonprofit status is cool
😂 does everything have to be political now? I don't care if the dude is a space alien who birthed Hitler, if the service is solid, I'm using it.
It has always been. FOSS is by itself political, just beyond the basic binary logic of left/right.
Your apoliticism is a political instance as well. Take for instance this quoute from Desmond Tutu "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
I'm not saying you have to ditch Proton over their CEO's takes, my point is that thinking that everything suddenly became political is naive.
It's all so tiring
Nobody said trying to lead an ethical life was a vacation
Agree, but that's reality. People suck, world sucks, life sucks.
You don't have to change your lifestyle over whatever thing that <random person you don't know nor care about> decided to say today. It is not wrong to feel that way neither. But, IMO, being aware of that, or at least being open to learn about that stuff, helps a lot to being in peace with it, and eventually, could lead to a more ethical consumption without going to extremes.
Everything has always been political. Just because you're too privileged to notice that until someone mentions a viewpoint you dislike doesn't mean anything except that you're usually oblivious.
CEO is a libertarian idiot who can’t see any difference between American Republicans and Democrats. CEO doesn’t have absolute control of proton, that’s a board of other privacy advocates. Proton as a service provider is still safe despite their CEO being a political twit.
IMO: A libertarian who doesn’t understand any value in why a government could possibly be good is the kind of person I want running an encryption service company. Wouldn’t trust him for running anything else though.
Devils advocate: Both parties love the alphabet agencies unconditionally and historically saw no problem with them. Still waiting for the Snowden wrist slap to happen. He is a bigger idiot for not letting public relations for the company handle his opinion.
If you have a bit extra money, get a seedbox. Cheapest I've seen is €10/mo
I've been happily using Windscribe for a while now, they have port forwarding with a dedicated IP. Averaging out the separate charges, it's about $4 USD/month for a custom plan (1 location + unlimited data) + dedicated IP. Technically their Pro tier includes ephemeral port forwarding, but I don't like how it works.
Airvpn offers port forwarding
Aren't they located in Italy, the Shithole that keeps trying to outlaw all VPNs and/or force them to provide backdoors and identifiable customers? They can only be stopped so many times before they succeed...
Yeah it's a bit of a "for now" thing and worth keeping an eye on Italy. To their credit, they don't offer services in Italy itself anymore after the "privacy shield" bullshit because "it goes against their mission" (for what that's worth lol)
Afaik, there's not many other choices for port forwarding
I use Private Internet Access (PIA) and that has port forwarding. I read something about it on reddit but forgot about it, so idk of there's anything bad it controversial surrounding PIA.
They got bought by a malvertising company a few years ago. It's what made me drop them after being a customer of theirs for years.
There is, just not in relation to piracy. The concerns are more over its financial incentives/ownership and privacy.
Torguard looks very BT friendly but I've still got mullvad subscription left and haven't tried them. That and the branding / website just seem illegitimate though I've not found any legit criticisms.
why is port forwarding a premium feature? isn't it just a setting on your router
There are providers that do not provide you your own IPv4 address, with a feature called "CGNAT". Often, they will then block you from port-forwarding altogether.
Bc $$$.
My provider won’t allow it unless I pay them $15/mo extra.
You can change the setting on your router anytime but it won’t work if your ISP doesn’t actually allow it.
GL.iNet router all the way.
IPv6. My stupid ISP actually shipped their router with all inbound ipv6 blocked with no way to unblock it, so I set up opnsense. Works like a charm!
At least your stupid ISP has IPv6. Mine doesn't (yet).
I'm very uneducated about this stuff. How does IPV6 fix that issue?
It doesn't fix it, per se, rather removes the need for layers of hacks such as nat and cg-nat. Every device gets a globally routable IP - no need to forward anything, just open the port you want.
This doesn't solve for VPNs no longer offering it though, unless the VPN services started offering pure v6 via tunnel at some point while I wasn't looking. I know I've never seen a v6 pier in the last few years since I started sailing again.
Yeah thats been my issue. It works fine on my unprotected IP. But I don't have the cash to spend on expensive vpns and the cheap options seem to universally be shlt for port forwarding, ie. seeding
What about ivpn? I was planning to try that myself.
No idea but torrentfreak always posted a "best vpn of year xyz". I'd go with that one. (Or check if mullvad has any tutorial on the subject.)
Rent a seed box. That's the best solution for everyone.
I've never used port forwarding. Everything works fine
That's for downloading, but it you want to upload/seed, then you would need port forwarding.
When you are not port forwarding you can only download from users who are actually port forwarding, or am I incorrect?
Partially, it's accurate when using the BT protocol. However if you use μTP (Micro Transport Protocol), it has “support for NAT traversal using UDP hole punching between two port-restricted peers where a third unrestricted peer acts as a STUN server.”
Does STUN no longer work to allow port-forwarding when needed by P2P applications?
μTP (Micro Transport Protocol) has “support for NAT traversal using UDP hole punching between two port-restricted peers where a third unrestricted peer acts as a STUN server.”
You have to separate pirating and torrenting. I'm pirating stuff non stop each day. I'm torrenting maybe once a month, if that. It's just not the go to thing for a lot of users, so issues around VPNs and torrenting probably aren't that pressing to warrant any kind of reaction.