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…

  •  ThetaDev   ( @ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English
    0•1 year ago

    Since my airvpn test month expired, I’ve just bought a Njalla subscription. Here are my experiences:

    Pro:

    • Payment via PayPal or cryptocurrency
    • Same price as Mullvad (5€/month)
    • Static IPv4 and v6, allows you to forward any port
    • Torrenting just worked (including port forwarding)
    • No VPN application, just use vanilla OpenVPN or Wireguard
    • Does not throttle my internet speed (I only have 50MBit/s, so I cannot really test VPN performance. Definitely better than AirVPN though)

    Contra:

    • Requires E-Mail address/XMPP to create an account
    • Only one client. If you need to access your VPN from multiple devices at the same time, you need to buy multiple subscriptions
    • Only Swedish servers

    Conclusion: for my usecase (Raspberry-Pi-based torrent box) Njalla looks great. If you want to use it on multiple devices or need to circumvent geoblocks, you should look for a different service.

    •  Brickfrog   ( @brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
      0•1 year ago

      Thanks for the info! If you just use vanilla OpenVPN/Wireguard with it then I’m guessing the port forwarding is something configured on the Njalla website, correct? That would be good news if true & opens up the possibility of setting it up on a router with port forward.

      •  ThetaDev   ( @ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English
        3•1 year ago

        You do not need to set up port forwarding on the website. They give each customer a static IP, so as long as you configure your ip tables to allow port forwarding, it just works on any port. QBittorrent worked out of the box.