There are providers that do not provide you your own IPv4 address, with a feature called "CGNAT". Often, they will then block you from port-forwarding altogether.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago

that is wild, man

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Bc $$$.

My provider won’t allow it unless I pay them $15/mo extra.

You can change the setting on your router anytime but it won’t work if your ISP doesn’t actually allow it.

[–] w00tsy@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

Likely they don't have enough IPs to go around

[–] s3rvant@lemmy.ml 3 points 16 hours ago

I use Proton VPN which has port forwarding

[–] Aux@feddit.uk 2 points 15 hours ago

Rent a seed box. That's the best solution for everyone.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 19 hours ago

Assuming you mean IPv4 CGNAT: IPv6.

[–] devnev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Does STUN no longer work to allow port-forwarding when needed by P2P applications?

[–] tVxUHF@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We just need to add I2P directly into the client in a way that's transparent to the user and all the problems are solved.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How does the I2P architecture solve the port forwarding issue. Is peer discovery easier within I2P?

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[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Look in to i2p

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

TIL it's not L2P, as in "Learn 2 Peer"

[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can someone correct me here.

If I have i2P enabled on my qBittorent client and I start seeding a torrent downloaded from a non-i2P connection.

Does my seed of it allow others to download that torrent through i2P?

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago

No, you need to cross seed. A torrent client that allows for this is biglybt. Or you need to manually re upload it on i2p

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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 62 points 2 days ago (19 children)

IPv6. My stupid ISP actually shipped their router with all inbound ipv6 blocked with no way to unblock it, so I set up opnsense. Works like a charm!

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[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Cyprus, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Singapore, and Sweden. They all spit in the eye of DMCA.

VPS in any of these countries, or just find a provider that doesn't care about torrenting. If you go the VPS option, run your own VPN and just look for a VPS that allows considerable traffic. A quick example, Ultahost (Netherlands) offers a VPS with unlimited bandwidth for $7/mo if you pay for 3 years in advance. Like sure, now you're paying to torrent, but I would rather pay $7/mo to protect myself with a VPN that I control vs worrying about port forwarding and getting DMCA's in the mail. 🤷‍♂️ I guess it depends on how much skin you want in the game.

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