Given that it is often said that having the ability to get incoming connections (ports open) is a very important part of speeding up your torrenting, I'm finding it odd there is not more discussion regarding port forwarding and VPN. I'm thinking maybe I'm just a VPN newb and not understanding the process. I finally gave up looking for info regarding proxy and port forwarding when I realized a proxy is just one way ...lol. Boy that was a time consuming and unrewarding google search.
If I am using a VPN client software on one machine, will port forwarding speed up my torrenting, or does the VPN and client software direct incoming connections adequately?
I currently have privateinternetaccess and airvpn, and both allow port forwarding, but I get awful speeds with airvpn and PIA only has far away servers for port forwarding which again means bad speeds. I haven't ran across any other VPNs that have port forwarding.
Also a question regarding encryption with VPN? As long as my IP is hidden I don't see a point with encryption. Shouldn't I just turn it off to speed up transfers?
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