So until now I always had closed ports because my ISP put me behind a CGNAT and can’t open ports (No I don’t need a vpn because no one cares in my country) Over time I just accepted that I cannot open ports but recently saw that if I tell them they will take me out of the CGNAT and be connectable, now I’m waiting for that.
Do you know what speed can you have before and after you open ports and more importantly what percent of peers have their ports open?
Download speed wasn’t really affected. But my uploading skyrocketed. I went from struggling to get 1.0 ratios to almost always getting 1.0 on even the most mediocre torrents.
The type of person to seed is more likely to open ports for this so if you didn’t have them open you’d be unaffected. But the type of person who mostly just leeches and doesn’t care about seeding probably wouldn’t notice because the seeders have their ports opened so they didn’t need to.
For what it’s worth, the right VPN will allow you to port forward
AFAIK Proton is the only one, or at least one of the very few, in the market that supports Port Forwarding. Mullvad got rid of theirs, which frankly sucks because although my experience has been (mostly) great, I’ve also heard great things about Mullvad, and it’s best (and nice) to have competitive alternatives to choose from.
Windscribe has port forwarding on static VPN’s, which is what I use
They also have port forwarding without static IP, but you have to renew the port every 7 days. Which is what I use, I don’t mind changing port once a week.
AirVPN allows a reserved port, so you don’t even have to change the setting in your client every time your port changes.
PIA also allows port forwarding but its a random port
Privatevpn allows it over openvpn, but not Wireguard (also independent and not a part of the big corporate vpn net)
I don’t now about numbers, but quality-wise… It’s another world.
Most certainly
MyAnonamouse is the first place where I really saw attention drawn to encourage port forwarding and after seeing the difference will always have ports forwarded
