My promotional plan NordVPN service is about due for renewal.

I was wondering if any tech support hexbears had any suggestions. The basic plan for Nord is going to run about 150$ US at its full price.

So far I’ve stumbled across some favorable mentions of Mullvad and the price seems better at about 60$ a year. I’m going to assume that all VPN services are going to make it difficult to seed anything, but if there still some around that dont block all the porta I would like to know more.

Mostly i just fart around on the hexbear at home or with my cell phone. I’m not serious about torrenting but there are things I’m interested in and I’ve notived are hard to find and don’t have many seeds, wouldn’t mind helping out without having to figure out how to set up a whole other server to do the thing.

Edit:

Survey says!

-AirVPN

So far its been okay. Bit of a slog getting it on my phone but seems to work okay.

Also a bit of a slog getting things set up to actually seed the occassional thing but that’s just because I know about 25% of what I think I know.

Actually got one of those online coupon things to knock a few bucks off as well.

Thanks everbody, you’re all swell. sankara-salute

  • peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    14 days ago

    Mullvad is pretty decent… i use that from time to time but I have no idea about torrenting. I don’t do that on my own connections.

  • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    14 days ago

    I’ve heard good things about AirVPN, but I still have some time left on my PIA subscription, so I haven’t tried it yet.

    They allow torrenting, have port forwarding and contribute to open source software projects.

    Avoid PIA, it’s a decent service for a reasonable price but it’s an Israeli company. I didn’t know that when I bought a 3.3 year subscription.

  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago

    AirVPN has port forwarding. If you’re using it for torrenting they’re a good choice. You can have several reserved ports I think, just make sure to set your client to the port you get.

    They often have sales so around and through the 1-4th of July they might have a “summer” sale or something. Black Friday is another time they always have sales. On sale you can probably get 2 years for $90 so you might want to consider buying only 6 months or something at this time and then re-upping during the sale.

    I’ll state for the record that I don’t think any VPN should be trusted for truly sensitive things that interest intelligence agencies. If you’re an activist you should consider using a VPN plus tor or l2p but if you’re just using this website it’s probably fine.

  • stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    I use air for torrents and mullvad (with their doh and https proxy) for everything else. Air came out to like ~$2-3 a month on a three year sub and mullvad is a flat $5 a month. Air goes through a gift card that’s not really anonymous but it doesn’t matter. Mullvad gets send a hundred dollar bill in an envelope with a number about every year or so.