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…
honestly you are going to be fine with most VPN providers. Unless you are one of the members of the very big scene groups, you are just seeding and your threat model is just to mask your connections from your ISP.
I personally suggest to use njalla. Few people talk about it but it’s a very very good provider, better than mullvad imho. Allows port forwarding, is transparent about legal requests and have a history of support with the piratebay. On top of that paypal denied payments to them for a period, and that is usually a good sign
I personally suggest to use njalla. Few people talk about it but it’s a very very good provider, better than mullvad imho. Allows port forwarding
That’s interesting, their website barely mentions any features about the VPN so I had assumed they don’t offer port forward. Just curious
- How many port forwards do they offer?
- Is it a static or dynamic port forward number? e.g. do they automatically change the number on you after x amount of time or does the port number stay the same?
- How do you configure the port forward on their system? Can it be configured on their website? Or must it be done via a VPN application they offer, or some other way?
Since my airvpn test month expired, I’ve just bought a Njalla subscription. Here are my experiences:
Pro:
- Payment via PayPal or cryptocurrency
- Same price as Mullvad (5€/month)
- Static IPv4 and v6, allows you to forward any port
- Torrenting just worked (including port forwarding)
- No VPN application, just use vanilla OpenVPN or Wireguard
- Does not throttle my internet speed (I only have 50MBit/s, so I cannot really test VPN performance. Definitely better than AirVPN though)
Contra:
- Requires E-Mail address/XMPP to create an account
- Only one client. If you need to access your VPN from multiple devices at the same time, you need to buy multiple subscriptions
- Only Swedish servers
Conclusion: for my usecase (Raspberry-Pi-based torrent box) Njalla looks great. If you want to use it on multiple devices or need to circumvent geoblocks, you should look for a different service.
Thanks for the info! If you just use vanilla OpenVPN/Wireguard with it then I’m guessing the port forwarding is something configured on the Njalla website, correct? That would be good news if true & opens up the possibility of setting it up on a router with port forward.
like nordvpn (who was a spamming machine on my PC back when I used it) or surfshark
Just FYI neither of those has port forwarding.
ProtonVPN, AirVPN and PIA all support port forwarding iirc
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 ^^
OP wants to use Soulseek which is P2P and requires port forwarding.
The post doesn’t mention seeding or torrenting whatsoever mate
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
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).
AirVPN and proton vpn can both do port forwarding
