May I know why you chose airvpn, other than because of port forwarding?
A group of friends gotten PIA a year or something ago for 3 years and we shared an account but the performance is mid. They also abandoned updating their Firefox extension so that’s another reason I want to change.
Like you I also want port forwarding so mullvad isn’t it
Yeah, PIA is… Alright? The parent company has a problematic past. Their old business model back in the late 2000’s was basically buying dying software, then pumping it full of adware to extract as much profit from the existing user base as possible. So lots of people jumped ship to other VPNs when PIA was sold to them a few years ago. But PIA itself has passed every audit that has been thrown at them, and they’re one of the few VPNs that still supports port forwarding.
Their performance is, as you said, mid. The speed definitely isn’t anywhere near gigabit, and the client tends to be kinda glitchy. But since port forwarding is such a hard requirement for so many people, they’ve managed to hold on to a pretty solid user base purely because of that.
May I know why you chose airvpn, other than because of port forwarding?
A group of friends gotten PIA a year or something ago for 3 years and we shared an account but the performance is mid. They also abandoned updating their Firefox extension so that’s another reason I want to change.
Like you I also want port forwarding so mullvad isn’t it
Yeah, PIA is… Alright? The parent company has a problematic past. Their old business model back in the late 2000’s was basically buying dying software, then pumping it full of adware to extract as much profit from the existing user base as possible. So lots of people jumped ship to other VPNs when PIA was sold to them a few years ago. But PIA itself has passed every audit that has been thrown at them, and they’re one of the few VPNs that still supports port forwarding.
Their performance is, as you said, mid. The speed definitely isn’t anywhere near gigabit, and the client tends to be kinda glitchy. But since port forwarding is such a hard requirement for so many people, they’ve managed to hold on to a pretty solid user base purely because of that.
PIA consistently drops on me whenever a torrent gets decent speed
It’s also cheaper than mullvad and has good reviews. That’s all I got.
Cheaper and have good reviews is just enough justification :)