Hello all!
I have been out of the piracy game since a little before mullvad lost port-forwarding; I know these things are ever changing, and to my understanding ivpn is a good bet at this moment in time.
I was wondering what everyone else has been using. As well as if anyone has tried the gui client for ivpn either built from source or the AUR build(I do use arch btw).
I am open to any vpn client that has a good reputation in the community, and build-able from a repository; A gui is preferred but not necessary, and absolutely NO account creation (Except for generic account numbers of course).
Thanks in advance for anyone who takes the time to answer.
The same 3 VPNs get recommended each time this question is asked:
- Mullvad
- Proton
- IVPN
+1 for Mullvad
+2
Sorry to spam the instance with a FAQ. I may of been misinformed, I was under the impression it was difficult to seed easily with Mullvad now. Also I was curious if anyone had recommendations with good Linux clients, not just the service itself; It seems IVPN or Mullvad will be the best all around option for me, if I do go the VPN route.
I can confirm that seeding with mullvad is painfully slow, if you do torrent locally get a VPN with port forwarding.
I only read the title and love Mullvad but for torrenting I’d absolutely recommend a seedbox instead. Some ones I can recommend are Whatbox.ca if you’re in North America or Seedhost if you’re in the EU. Feralhosting isn’t bad either specially for the price.
I started with Feralhosting but decided I wanted to try racing and bought a custom tuned server. Then I realized I didn’t want to pay $100 a month and switched to Chmuranet (sp?) and didn’t like how they treated their customers. Then I tried Seedhost which was great but the peering to North America wasn’t ideal. Finally I ended up with Whatbox and I’ve been happy with them ever since.
What would stop one of these sites from removing copywrited content and / or informing the owner?
Seems risky putting seeding in someone else’s hands
Thanks for the information, I will definitely look into those! I used to use Mullvad for torrenting for a number of years, the Linux client worked very well, no leaks, and the Killswitch was effective through manual testing.
Mullvad doesn’t have port forwarding anymore. As long as you don’t want to leech top secret dark net torrents that only 3 people have in the world, you’re absolutely fine.
or use any private trackers at all lol
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Use real debrid to download torrents.
Only Proton should be recommended for torrenting since it has port-forwarding. I don’t know why people love suggesting these even without port-forwarding.
Port-forwarding isn’t essential for torrenting. It really depends on the user as to whether that’s an important feature.
So two that don’t offer port forwarding and one that only does on Windows? Wow what a great recommendation…
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Mullvad or torguard
The only two that proved in court that they don’t log user activity
Private Internet access has been bought out by a different company since the last time they had to prove it
I’ve been a ProtonVPN user for years and they have been rock solid since day one. It’s also convenient for me as I have moved away from Google services and replaced them with Proton’s other applications.
I just decided to make the switch to protons services last week, so far it’s working well enough. I haven’t found a good way to automatically backup photos from my phone to my proton drive in an organized way though…
Proton Drive is beta at best… i works, just not how normie end user would expect. there work orders. But I am too lazy to set it up
I use syncthing on my phone to backup photos to a drive on my homelab.
Yeah that’s the method i keep hearing about. Just to lazy to set it up lol
Syncthing is great, it’s so simple you almost can’t call it setup but I kind of miss the homelab part so I used my computer, now I miss that too but I will get it repaied very soon (hopefully)
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Holy shit, thank you for that information; I will definitely ensure I use a client with those vulnerabilities patched!
Airvpn. I’ve been using it for years with no problem.
Same here. They have an open source graphical client you can use or they can generate an OpenVPN profile for you. Easy to use, high speeds, good price and they support port forwarding.
Another mullvad recommendation usually don’t trust any provider if they can afford and want to do advertisement all over the place. Mullvad let’s you pay in coins if you want to be super ghost
Oh yeah. I’ve used them for a couple years, I’ve just been out of the circle for 4-5 months. I also know things can change in the snap of a finger, so I figured I’d ask around. Good to see mullvad is still so highly recommended.
+1 to Mullvad. I only switched to NordVPN because I wanted to use an IP address from a country they have servers on.
Ivpn would be your best choice I think. I’m using proton VPN after mullvad abandoned port forwarding (why oh why did they do that!), but their client for Linux is basic but they are developing a new one at the moment. So port forwarding is a bit difficult to setup (but they do have it).
Sorry but your wording is a bit confusing. Are you saying that Proton have port forwarding but it’s difficult to set up? And is Mullvad developing a new client or is it Proton? And how does IVPN fit into the picture, do they not have any of these limitations as Proton/Mullvad?
Sorry haven’t had coffee yet. So in short:
Proton has port forwarding but difficult to setup on Linux. They are developing a Linux client more feature rich where hopefully oort forwarding will be an ease just like the windows client they have. Ipvns client for linux I think has this feature but needs verification since last time I looked was more than I months ago.
Thanks for the information; I already use proton mail plus to have all of my email domains under one, easy to sort inbox. However, I don’t wish to perform illicit activities on something with my legal name attached!
Well they claim they don’t have a logs policy plus they don’t monitor traffic… I stopped caring about this some time ago haha.
Then your only option is ivpn I guess.
Yeah, still I can only take the company’s word to any of these claims. After further research it looks like IVPN doesn’t have port forwarding anymore either; If I do go the VPN route, I may still test my seeding speed with Mullvad as I’ve used them for a number of years.
Oh they don’t support port forwarding? Hmm I couldn’t find this but , too bad. I guess I have to wait and see the Proton’s implementation.
Airvpn with wireguard client prolly. I would just get a seedbox tbh roughly the same price but with more features
Thanks for the suggestion! This may actually be the route I may go, as I can seed MUCH higher than a 1.0 without affecting my home connection speeds.
Exactly.
You also get wireguard vpn free with seedbox. Albeit the location will be limited to Netherlands.
Is setup similar to a VPS where I can just connect from the command line and set everything up on the remote box?
yes same. but unlike VPSs you get more (but shared) resources but no root access.
Thanks for the info!
i’ve been using mullvad for almost a year with zero issues. fast, cheap and reliable.
Airvpn
Airvpn cuz mullvad dont have PF anymore. Simmilar prices and just works. I found eddie client gui buggy (it could be something on my side), but its working for me
Does the server ping keep disappearing for you too?
Windscribe works for me. You can either use their software which is open source or create personal VPN configs on their site to use it with your distros network manager.
They’re the best!
I was using mullvad for a few months and noticed that a lot of websites I wanted to use were not working for me. Plus they removed port forwarding.
Since then I have been looking for alternatives.
Currently I’m considering -
- Airvpn
- Azirevpn
- PIA
Pia seems to have a really good deal for the 3 year plan. This particular plan is so cheap that other providers prices seem ridiculously high. I have not heard much good things about PIA, so I still havent bought it.
I have generally heard a positive response on Airvpn.
Don’t know much about Azirevpn.
Are there any cheap yet “not shitty” vpn providers that you guys suggest ?
I switched to airvpn. It gets the job done.
- Not as fast as mullvad on gigabit but it’s good enough
- the app doesn’t look great, but yeah.
- In general cheaper than mullvad.
- I have no idea if they are blocked from streaming sites, I only use VPN for torrents.
ProtonVPN came with my Proton plan so I decided to try it. Works great on all my Linux distros, haven’t had any problems. Kill switch works too, bind your torrent software of choice to the VPN device and you should be good to go.
Make suse to use one of the P2P specific servers for best performance.
No nasty letters from my ISP yet!
Have you been able to get ProtonVPN to work with WireGuard on Linux? I believe their VPN client on Linux only uses OpenVPN and I’ve tried to pull a WireGuard config file for a P2P server but every time I try to use it, I get no connection.
I haven’ tried that naw, sorry :/
Mysterium looks pretty interesting, being completely decentralized. All the mainstream VPNs are pretty shady to me, being run in a centralized manner and some heavily marketed by “influencers”.
