https://lemm.ee/post/56692320/18526252

A connection has to be established. That is only possible if one side has an open port.

So you can basically not connect to other people with closed ports, which reduces your available pool of people to connect to.

As long as there are enough people with open ports for you, you and the torrent ecosystem will be fine. But when nobody or very few people have open ports, torrenting simply doesn’t work.

A connection has to be established. That is only possible if one side has an open port.

So you can basically not connect to other people with closed ports, which reduces your available pool of people to connect to.

As long as there are enough people with open ports for you, you and the torrent ecosystem will be fine. But when nobody or very few people have open ports, torrenting simply doesn’t work.

If you ever want to torrent, some service that allows port forwarding, like AirVPN or PureVPN. A popular alternative of mullvad does not allow this.

Unless you never want to torrent, I would not choose mullvad. Torrenting requires port forwarding if you properly want to give back to the community, which mullvad doesn’t support.

Unless you never want to torrent, I would say to not use mullvad, you can’t forward a port with them (same with NordVPN). There are plenty of VPNs that don’t log and allow port forwarding. I use AirVPN.