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Any Mullvad Alternative?

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Re: Any Mullvad Alternative?

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Post by zen_1 »

eva_cananim wrote: post #9
sysadm1n wrote: post #7

ELI5 to me: what is 'port forwarding' with regards to VPNs (from someone who uses a VPN and might be missing out on the party?) No technical answer please, just spell it out like I'm five.

The biggest real reason the people use VPN services is probably because they are downloading lots of copyright-infringing torrents. With port forwarding, reprehensible people downloading rubbish hollywood movies using bittorrent can download from lots more peers. For ipv4, a home internet box normally gets one internet ip address. The traffic to and from the three smartphones, two computers and two smart TVs uses one…

Out of curiosity, who gives out real IPs?

Re: Any Mullvad Alternative?

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Post by switch007 »

I kept Mullvad and got a seedbox instead (with the benefit that torrents download much much quicker, and now I've got a hosted personal Plex too, for just under 15 EUR a month).

I've recently tried other VPN providers (their names escape me, but they rated highly just behind Mullvad) and their apps were worse and their IPs blocked by many more services.

I still use Mullvad despite their frequent outages and slower speeds, but I don't like their growth in to other areas - they need to focus on speed and preventing DDoS attacks/outages.

Re: Any Mullvad Alternative?

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Post by ajp11 »

zen_1 wrote: post #11
eva_cananim wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest real reason the people use VPN services is probably because they are downloading lots of copyright-infringing torrents. With port forwarding, reprehensible people downloading rubbish hollywood movies using bittorrent can download from lots more peers. For ipv4, a home internet box normally gets one internet ip address. The traffic to and from the three smartphones, two computers and two smart TVs uses one…

Out of curiosity, who gives out real IPs?

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