I’ve been putting off renewing my mullvad membership because of the port forwarding thing. I only want to use it for torrenting. Is it really crucial to find a VPN that supports port forwarding? If so, what’s the go to option now that it’s becoming increasingly uncommon?
It’s crucial when the only seeder won’t open their port.
My opinion: I wish qbittorrent 4.6 would release sooner, it comes with I2P support, which I’ve seen discussed on lemmy a few times.
It’s important for rare/poorly seeded torrents, but not at all important if it’s a new release movie or something like that which will be well seeded.
How does port forwarding work if you have multiple torrent clients on the same network, all sharing a public IP?
You put them on different ports and make multiple forwards, one for each.
Each peer can choose any port they want – to open to the swarm. You’re not restricted to one particular port, so there’s no need to clash with another per on your network. The defaults in the settings are merely suggestions.