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...

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[–] bruchsturm@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm a bit confused. Using mullvad and I'm still seeding fine.

Could anyone explain why I need portforwarding?

Using mullvad wireguard and qbittorrent

Seeding with ~1Mbit right now, which is normal for my connection

Edit: thought soulseek is some torrent slang or client, I'm an idiot ^^

[–] dunloap@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP wants to use Soulseek which is P2P and requires port forwarding.

The post doesn't mention seeding or torrenting whatsoever mate

[–] bruchsturm@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh God I'm an idiot. Thanks

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

We are all idiots on this blessed day

[–] ancoraunamoka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you don't really have a high bandwidth so I am not surprised that it makes no difference. For me port forwarding is the difference between seeding at 16MB/s vs 3/4MB/s

[–] exscape@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it only take affect seeding? I'm behind NAT with no port forwarding and often download at 80-110 MB/s (megabytes, not megabits).

[–] ancoraunamoka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

it should affect downloading as well. It increases the number of peers able to connect to you for data exchange in both directions