• Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    4 months ago

    Wonderful software, easy payment, great rates, but lack of port forwarding is a major fallback. I understand it was due to a very minor chunk of bad actors, but that minor chunk was hosting CSAM and other horrible internet-accessible things, and no way to track what traffic is where, means they had to remove the feature for the 98% of good faith users.

    But I almost refuse to use AirVPN’s software. It’s so… weird. I’m thankful they support wireguard with zero issues, so I can just use the default network manager and apps for Linux/Android, but that client interface is so backwards compared to Mullvad and iVPN.

      • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        4 months ago

        That’s it mainly. Port forwarding improves my torrenting enough to where I get better reliability.

          • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            4 months ago

            My internet isnt fast enough, My average download speed for the entire place is maybe 18 MB/s, and 0.5 MB/s upload.

            Torrenting helps solve the problem as I can just tell it to download in chunks and then turn it off when I need more leg room on my copper wire internet from 2003 that AT&T doesn’t change.

            I have some of the slowest speeds where 4G Data is a massive upgrade, so when I need to offload some jpgs to discord or something, its faster if I just send them to my phone and upload that way.

            • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              4 months ago

              And that is exactly the reason to use a seedbox. You can leave it in the cloud to seed at gigabit speeds whilst you can download at your leisure and not worry about tormenting at all on your computer. Also it’s less expensive than Mullvad but you likely can’t pay with XMR/cash if that’s a deal breaker

              • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                4 months ago

                I have tried a seedbox before, but the bottleneck is the last mile of my home internet. I just have a Raspberry Pi 3B+ hooked onto my router via ethernet. I just log onto qBittorrent and tell it to go as I sleep, and turn it off when I wake up. The downloading is done already onto a spare laptop drive I have, and then I watch it via Jellyfin or sneakernet it over to a friend.

                I won’t say a seedbox is useless, I think it’s great, but due to how my living works, it’s not great. I’ve waited several minutes for a few PNGs to download, game updates often take hours. Not even counting how the actual fucking wind slows down my internet, due to the copper wiring being on poles like electricity. And I live in a place with so many windmills due to the natural features of the land creating daily wind storms from 4 PM until 7 AM.

                I really do appropriate the advice however!

                • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  4 months ago

                  Your situation is really unique. Yeah, you’re probably better off with a VPN and torrenting directly. Which VPN do you have in mind?

                  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    2
                    ·
                    4 months ago

                    I personally use AirVPN. I detest the software client. It’s open source at least, but it feels like it was made for Windows XP and just ported forward.

                    That said, it supports Wireguard, so making my rpi log into the VPN anytime it goes offline is simple. Same for my laptop and phone.

                    Decent rates, good ways of dealing with per-device things, easy to lend the account to people who need a VPN, and often has sales.

    • intoverflow@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      4 months ago

      Airvpn was so slow for me. Did anyone else had that problem? Couldn’t get 1Gbit down. With Mullvad it was no problem.