• ZehTy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I was an AirVPN user for a number of years until Mullvad came around. I switched to Mullvad and stuck with them for a few years. However, now that Mullvad has gotten rid of port forwarding, I have since moved back to AirVPN.

        The performance has been solid with all the servers I have used, even with multiple tunnels open. My only complaint is that the IPs on the servers I use are unfortunately blacklisted on quite a number of sites. Other than that, I am satisfied.

      • MSugarhill@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        What I can already say is that the Eddy app for android worked pretty bad on my Pixel 6. But with the Wireguard app everything is smooth. For my Fedora Installation I can say it works fine as long as I disable DHCP in the LAN config. There are better solutions but I did not dare to change anything deeper in the system so far. Even more as I mostly use my VPN over my router, and that way I have no DNS/IP leakage.

        App wise Mullvad was much better.

    • seemebreakthis@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Any verdict? Now that Mullvad port forwarding is gone, I am also looking for alternatives. Thanks !

      • MSugarhill@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        As my first trys did not seed a lot I could not see any difference. Speeds were about the same.

  • seemebreakthis@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Assuming they go by GMT it is now July 1 and as of this moment port forwarding still works

    Edit: Yup as of July 3, port forwarding is gone. Just checked using telnet and it no longer works. Also Mullvad website no longer has the port check function.

    • DannyMac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      They’re removing Port Forwarding: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/

      Unfortunately port forwarding also allows avenues for abuse, which in some cases can result in a far worse experience for the majority of our users. Regrettably individuals have frequently used this feature to host undesirable content and malicious services from ports that are forwarded from our VPN servers. This has led to law enforcement contacting us, our IPs getting blacklisted, and hosting providers cancelling us.

      The result is that it affects the majority of our users negatively, because they cannot use our service without having services being blocked.

      The abuse vector of port forwarding has caught up with us, and today we announce the discontinuation of support for port forwarding. This means that if you are a user of forwarded ports, you will not be able to add or modify the ports you have in use.

      We have removed the ability to add port forwards on all accounts.

      Let me put on my tinfoil hat for a second: I have a heck of a time believing other VPN providers haven’t encountered the same issues as Mullvad and to me, this signals that Mullvad’s competitors are working with, lets say, organizations that would be highly interested in what you’re doing.

        • CodeGameEat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          I think he’s saying that all VPNs that do port forward will interest governments/police and the ones that are still operating are probably only operating because they got a deal to not be prosecuted in exchange of letting those entities see the traffic. Mullvad being Mullvad, they will never do that so instead of having all those legals threats, they just shut down the port-forward service. Tbh I’m surprised it ran as long as it did.

  • coderade@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Ive heard proton vpn is good, but I’m also looking for a good alternative. Damn shame they’re getting rid of port forwarding

    • CodeGameEat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      02·
      1 year ago

      ProtonVPN will probably discontinue port-forward too since it is using Mullvad in the backend