P2P

Mullvad removed port forwarding in May 2023, leaving thousands who relied on it for seeding Linux ISOs hunting for alternatives. ProtonVPN added it back by mid-2024. And NordVPN had run dedicated P2P servers the whole time. Yet most torrenting VPN guides still quote feature matrices from 2024. So we spent two weeks testing eight major VPNs under real torrent workloads. Ten-gigabyte Linux ISOs on public trackers with 300+ seeders. Sustained seeding across 48 hours. And Wireshark running on the side to verify which “no-log” claims hold up. ...