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VPN and port forwarding (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by svotay@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/969323

I am looking to buy a VPN subscription, and im interested in getting one that allows port forwarding. Found a few that still allows this, including pure VPN and air VPN which seem to offer good value for money, at least on the the long term plans. Any feedback on these two?

I used to have nordvpn, and used it for 3 years, and once that subscription ran out, have been using mullvad so far. Performance wise mullvad hasnt disappointed me or anything, but now im looking to find one that allows port forwarding.

I also have a doubt regarding the whole port forwarding thing, does the VPN having this feature enable to do it even if my ISP doesnt allow port forwarding? From the videos and articles I read, VPN port forwarding is just something you do inside their native apps and such, so if the ISP hasnt enabled port forwarding for me (which I know it hasnt, because tried to get jellyfin working the other day, and couldnt get the ports to open even after setting everything up in my router), will I still be able to do it? I tried searching around with this query, but didnt really find anything.

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[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

May I ask what your end goal is? This will help me offer a recommendation. What would you like to do? Host Jellyfin for friends?

[–] svotay@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be frank, I dont have any particular need for a VPN other than torrenting and bypassing geographical restriction in a general way. The jellyfin experiment was to just be able to share my media across the web, so that people I know can access my media, music, mostly. Even the selection of a VPN isnt that urgent as I have a shared seedbox with seedbox.eu so that I can download torrents safely. Since I have been using a VPN for some years now, I thought id keep one handy, and when I was reading up about port forwarding, I thought maybe that could be useful, for jellyfin and such.

My doubt arose from these VPN services proclaiming they allow port forwarding, and knowing my ISP has disabled it, I was curious whether that will affect my ability to avail port forwarding via the VPN service.

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you'd like to make Jellyfin, or another service for that matter, I suggest looking at something like Tailscale or ZeroTier. Basically these create overlay private networks. There is a rather generous free tier of use.

[–] svotay@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Zerotier was something I did come across a while ago, I will try to learn how to setup my jellyfin in combination with something like that. Thanks for your help.