You can get away without port forwarding if the Linux ISO you’re trying to get has a lot of peers who DO have port forwarding. But your speed could be slower because of it. And if you want a more obscure ISO that doesn’t have a lot of support, doesn’t have a lot of peers, then your speed will likely suffer, and might not be able to download anything at all.
It’s something to research. If you don’t like PIA, proton also has port forwarding 👍
Ah gotcha, no worries.
You can get away without port forwarding if the Linux ISO you’re trying to get has a lot of peers who DO have port forwarding. But your speed could be slower because of it. And if you want a more obscure ISO that doesn’t have a lot of support, doesn’t have a lot of peers, then your speed will likely suffer, and might not be able to download anything at all.
It’s something to research. If you don’t like PIA, proton also has port forwarding 👍
Ohhh that’s good to know… do they block p2p traffic?
I don’t know about proton, I don’t think they do. PIA works fine also