mullvad and proton stand as vpn. However, mullvad does not allow torrenting because there is no port forwarding. Mullvad should not be on the list
mullvad and proton stand as vpn. However, mullvad does not allow torrenting because there is no port forwarding. Mullvad should not be on the list
I don’t think this is true.
I’ve made torrents and then seeded them to my friends without either of us setting up port forwarding. All I did was give them the torrent file and then it worked.
Maybe there’s something going on under the hood that makes my situation unique. My experience though is that I didn’t have to do anything related to port forwarding when sharing a torrent.
However, port forwarding is required for something like Soulseek. I’m not sure why it would be required for one and not the other.
Probably the port forwarding was automatically set up by UPnP, which is also something that can’t be done on a vpn without port forwarding. If you have a tracker, the torrent might also work, but then the tracker itself would have to be port forwarded.
Were you using a VPN at the time? I was under the impression that the issue is at standard anything involving ports just doesn’t work with a VPN because it would be trying to get to the port on the VPN, which the VPN would rightly refuse unless you’d set it up to forward that port
Yes, I was using a VPN. It’s still working right now.
black0ut may be on to something, but I don’t know much about trackers. I think creating torrents with qbittorrent automatically includes ‘opentracker’ but I don’t really know what that means.