Comment on Spanish Court Orders ProtonVPN and NordVPN to Block Pirate Football Streams
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 day agoI 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.
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.