I wouldn’t use Mullvad when it’s openly hostile to peer-to-peer torrenting. Even outside of the obvious – piracy is one of the besf and most unique use cases for a VPN – I use torrents wherever the option is available on for legal downloads because that’s normally faster, spares a load on the server, and strengthens the download’s resiliency. That Mullvad wants to restrict that is their (reasonable) call, but it’s not one that’s going to get my money.
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Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Well, if this isn’t a sign to get off those VPNs in favour of Mullvad, I don’t know what is
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Toes@ani.social 1 day ago
I’ve been using Mullvad for awhile now and torrenting works fine.
I did notice a behaviour that LibTorrent 1.2.x works better than 2.x and some endpoints don’t play nice.
If you’re willing to give it another spin try Netherlands.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
They don’t excplicitly ban torrenting, but they banned port forwarding in 2023 which limits who you can connect to.
Toes@ani.social 1 day ago
Ah I see what you mean.
It relies on the other side to have an open NAT or support UDP hole punching.
In my experience this works fairly well with μTP enabled.
LordDaveTheKind@piefed.social 1 day ago
Does Mullvad allow sports streaming? When I used it to watch the Olympics on the Italian broadcaster (RAI), the stream was blocked.
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
From which end?
LordDaveTheKind@piefed.social 1 day ago
From United Kingdom to Italy
Beep@lemmus.org 1 day ago
There is IVPN too.