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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

The first thing I do with my isp provided modem is set it to bridge mode.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

why is port forwarding a premium feature? isn't it just a setting on your router

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

There are providers that do not provide you your own IPv4 address, with a feature called "CGNAT". Often, they will then block you from port-forwarding altogether.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

that is wild, man

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Bc $$$.

My provider won’t allow it unless I pay them $15/mo extra.

You can change the setting on your router anytime but it won’t work if your ISP doesn’t actually allow it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Likely they don't have enough IPs to go around

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

I use Proton VPN which has port forwarding

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Assuming you mean IPv4 CGNAT: IPv6.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Rent a seed box. That's the best solution for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Does STUN no longer work to allow port-forwarding when needed by P2P applications?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We just need to add I2P directly into the client in a way that's transparent to the user and all the problems are solved.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How does the I2P architecture solve the port forwarding issue. Is peer discovery easier within I2P?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Can someone correct me here.

If I have i2P enabled on my qBittorent client and I start seeding a torrent downloaded from a non-i2P connection.

Does my seed of it allow others to download that torrent through i2P?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

No, you need to cross seed. A torrent client that allows for this is biglybt. Or you need to manually re upload it on i2p

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

TIL it's not L2P, as in "Learn 2 Peer"

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Cyprus, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Singapore, and Sweden. They all spit in the eye of DMCA.

VPS in any of these countries, or just find a provider that doesn't care about torrenting. If you go the VPS option, run your own VPN and just look for a VPS that allows considerable traffic. A quick example, Ultahost (Netherlands) offers a VPS with unlimited bandwidth for $7/mo if you pay for 3 years in advance. Like sure, now you're paying to torrent, but I would rather pay $7/mo to protect myself with a VPN that I control vs worrying about port forwarding and getting DMCA's in the mail. 🤷‍♂️ I guess it depends on how much skin you want in the game.

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