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…
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.
You do not need to set up port forwarding on the website. They give each customer a static IP, so as long as you configure your ip tables to allow port forwarding, it just works on any port. QBittorrent worked out of the box.