And how many of you shifted to a different provider and why?
I’ve been using Mullvad for years. The whole port forwarding thing didn’t affect me at all.
I’m unfortunately switching to airVPN at the end of the month. I need port forwarding for private trackers and torrenting.
Went from Surfshark, to Nord, to TorGuard, then to Windscribe, and now to Mullvad. That’s since 2019. Before that I surfed unwrapped.
Still using it. Nothing has changed that has impacted me. Incoming connections hasn’t really been something I have ever needed.
Mullvad still seem to be one of the most secure options available.
Using until the end of the month. Port forwarding is a deal breaker for me and I will be switching to something else.
Still using it, would like to be able to port forward but I’ll make do with using a VPS for that. Not a good enough alternative for me to switch to
I only use Mullvad and have for years. No plans on switching to anything else anytime soon. My yearly subscription is coming to an end soon, so if anyone wants to share the cost of a yearly sub, let me know. Preferably a swede.
I have no need for port forwarding and such that others have mentioned. for me it’s a nice simple service with great speed and a good variety of nodes. And while I have my issues with the client, if I leave it set to auto mode, be it on my laptop or a mobile, no matter how anal a network I’m on it will usually chug through enough options, ports, and bridges to finally find a good connection. This is ideal for me as I can always leave it on
Long time I had big trouble hosting multiplayer dedicated servers because I had DS-Lite shared connection without a real public IP and PF was unavailable. With Mullvad no problem, I turn on VPN with Port Forwarding, give my friend the IP:Port and we could play. Now that they stop providing PF I will switch the service. Mullvad is way to expensive to not have port forwarding from now on.
I quit Mullvad because of no more port forwarding. I tried PrivateVPN, Njalla and OVPN but am currently using AirVPN. It was the only service I could find that offered
- Cheap price
- wireguard port forwarding on linux
- absence of shady owners selling your traffic history (ovpn aquired by pango)
I haven’t commited long term yet, though. Just payed for a month. I’ll see what I’ll do after that.
edit: Changed from AirVPN to TorGuard. AirVPN speed turned out to be subpar. Seemed pretty fast in the beginning but started to dip. Ranged from 50%-90% of my isp speed. TorGuard seems to max out my connection. I guess I’ll see in the long run if this continues to be the case.
Only downside so far is that I have to figure out to make a proxmox lxc wireguard client gateway to route my other lxcs through. Since TorGuard only accepts one wireguard session to its dedicated ips.
I use mullvad with port forwarding for torrenting, I was told to use port forwarding so it’s easier to get those hard to get low seed torrents. Is this correct, do I need port forwarding?
Because of port forwarding obviously. You know the answer to the second question before you asked.
Done at end of the month. Still searching for another provider. I need port forwarding.
Mullvad is my first vpn which I love due to affordable pricing + no logs policy.
My subscription is active but set to expire soon. Won’t renew.
Why would I change? I don’t use port forwarding.
Working great for what I need.
I still have Mullvad through mid August. When I first discovered Mullvad, I had another VPN provider subscription paid through December 2024 (Christmas special). So they overlapped. Not overly concerned about the refunds. Planned on keeping Mullvad but after losing port forwarding, I will go back to the previous provider but keeping an eye out for other recommendations as well.
I’ll gladly use Mullvad again when iCloud sync works without issues. Until then, I have a month of Surfshark left and may switch to Windscribe.