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I literally signed up for their VPN last night since NordVPN doesn't offer port forwarding. . . Oh well, I can 30 day guarantee it and get mullvad I guess. All I lost was a bit of time setting it up in all my containers, and any respect I had for Proton
Give AirVPN a chance. The website looks terrible but it's a great service and port forwarding is far simpler than Proton's weird solution
Update: I just signed up for AirVPN, but speeds are very slow. With both Nord and Proton, spp d tests come back at ~800/700 on my gigabit fiber. The fastest AirVPN server I've found is 60/10, most are 10/10.
Is this normal in your experience (just a slow VPN service) or do you know of anything I can do to get faster speeds? (I'm using the Eddie client on windows)
Looks like they're taking advantage of the controversy with a sale! Requested my 30 day money back from Proton, and signed up for AirVPN ($10 cheaper!)