There are providers that do not provide you your own IPv4 address, with a feature called "CGNAT". Often, they will then block you from port-forwarding altogether.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

that is wild, man

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Bc $$$.

My provider won’t allow it unless I pay them $15/mo extra.

You can change the setting on your router anytime but it won’t work if your ISP doesn’t actually allow it.

[–] w00tsy@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Likely they don't have enough IPs to go around

[–] s3rvant@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

I use Proton VPN which has port forwarding

[–] Aux@feddit.uk 1 points 9 hours ago

Rent a seed box. That's the best solution for everyone.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 13 hours ago

Assuming you mean IPv4 CGNAT: IPv6.

[–] devnev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago

Does STUN no longer work to allow port-forwarding when needed by P2P applications?

[–] tVxUHF@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We just need to add I2P directly into the client in a way that's transparent to the user and all the problems are solved.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How does the I2P architecture solve the port forwarding issue. Is peer discovery easier within I2P?

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[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Look in to i2p

[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Can someone correct me here.

If I have i2P enabled on my qBittorent client and I start seeding a torrent downloaded from a non-i2P connection.

Does my seed of it allow others to download that torrent through i2P?

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago

No, you need to cross seed. A torrent client that allows for this is biglybt. Or you need to manually re upload it on i2p

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago

TIL it's not L2P, as in "Learn 2 Peer"

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