PC gamer in NA.
🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦🤝🇪🇺 Slava Ukraini.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • Helldiver_M@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Mullvad Browser (no TOR, no VPN)
    6·
    3 years ago

    If you’re doing a peer-to-peer (P2P) related activity, port forwarding is very important for improving speed or enabling the service at all. That’s because your router blocks incoming traffic from certain ports by default, ports that are used for a P2P connection. To get around this, you can ‘forward’ the specific port that is used for the P2P activity you’re using, letting your router know that the traffic you expect to see from a specific port is good to let through.

    You can simply leave port forwarding to your personal router, but if you want to stay anonymous while participating in P2P connections, then you’ll want to use a VPN service. If a VPN service doesn’t utilize port forwarding, then any P2P connections you use will either be straight up impossible, or very slow over the VPN. The P2P service you’re attempting to use needs to access a specific port on the VPN’s router, which needs forwarding to work properly. For example, you wanted to host a gaming server without giving away your actual IP address, then a VPN with port forwarding is desirable. The same can be said for torrenting.

    TL;DR: VPNS with port forwarding matter if you want to stay anonymous while using P2P services.

  • Helldiver_M@kbin.socialtoNews@lemmy.world•US citizens urged to leave Belarus immediately
    83·
    3 years ago

    I never even suggested we let them do whatever we want.

    That doesn’t mean we provoke them into using their nukes.

    Using that logic they can do whatever they want, as long as they back up their ‘want’ with nukes.

    I think there are things we should never let them do, even under threat of nukes. Muscovy needs hard red lines, else they’d just annex everything. Got to call their nuke bluff from time to time.

  • Helldiver_M@kbin.socialtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Mullvad Announce Latest Infrastructure Audit
    32·
    3 years ago

    If you’re doing a P2P related activity over a VPN (or otherwise), port forwarding is very important for improving speed or enabling the service at all. That’s because your router blocks incoming traffic from certain ports by default, ports that will be used with a P2P connection. To get around this, you can ‘forward’ a port that can be used for said P2P activity, letting your router know that the traffic you expect to see from a specific port should be let through.

    You can simply leave port forwarding to your personal router, but if you want to stay anonymous while participating in P2P connections, then you’ll want to use a VPN service. If a VPN service doesn’t utilize port forwarding, then any P2P connections you use will either be straight up impossible, or very slow. For example, you wanted to host a gaming server without giving away your actual IP address, then a VPN with port forwarding is desirable. The same can be said for torrenting.

  • Helldiver_M@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS
    11·
    3 years ago

    I don’t think so. Maybe I’m misunderstood, but the “I use Arch” meme was meming on the fact that using Arch was a flex, like it’s harder to get into, and you’re a true blooded Linux user if you’re using Arch.

    Whereas, Pop_OS is kind of the opposite. I’m fairly new to Linux (been using a Linux system as my daily driver for about a year), and Pop_OS was recommended as a beginner-friendly distro. Plus, it worked well with Nvidia cards with minimal effort. So maybe it seems like a lot of people are using Pop_OS and are bringing it up, because there are a lot of newer Linux users.