Without port forwarding you can only connect to those who do have it set up. Doing so yourself allows you to be a better citizen of the internet and share with people who don't know what it is.

(Caveat: I am one of those people who don't understand it and am just parroting what was explained to me when I asked about this)

[–] kittenroar@beehaw.org -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

Port forwarding allows you to seed without revealing your IP address. If you seed on a VPN and you don't have port forwarding, your IP is revealed to those you seed to.

Edit -- I was wrong. You can technically seed securely behind a VPN connection, but since you can't be connected to directly behind a vpn without port forwarding, you would only be able to seed to ppl who port forward, or who can be connected to directly. You would only be able to leech from everyone else.

If everyone torrented like this (behind a VPN without port forwarding), all torrents would grind to a halt; nobody would be able to seed.

[–] moon@feddit.it 9 points 4 days ago

Port forwarding allows connecting to peers who have not set it up (for both leeching and seeding). Two peers without port forwarding can't connect to each other, if you set it up you can connect to every peer in the swarm. Torrenting behing a VPN always hides your real IP address😉

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