I wanted to do some soulseek, but just as I began moving towards that this happened. What VPN should I use for this ? I don’t want to use any of those over advertised shady VPNs like nordvpn (who was a spamming machine on my PC back when I used it) or surfshark or others if not necessary…

  • bruchsturmEnglish
    81·
    11 months ago

    I’m a bit confused. Using mullvad and I’m still seeding fine.

    Could anyone explain why I need portforwarding?

    Using mullvad wireguard and qbittorrent

    Seeding with ~1Mbit right now, which is normal for my connection

    Edit: thought soulseek is some torrent slang or client, I’m an idiot ^^

    • dunloap@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      OP wants to use Soulseek which is P2P and requires port forwarding.

      The post doesn’t mention seeding or torrenting whatsoever mate

    • ancoraunamoka@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      you don’t really have a high bandwidth so I am not surprised that it makes no difference. For me port forwarding is the difference between seeding at 16MB/s vs 3/4MB/s

      • exscape@kbin.social
        2·
        11 months ago

        Does it only take affect seeding? I’m behind NAT with no port forwarding and often download at 80-110 MB/s (megabytes, not megabits).