I was just curious about this because I haven’t seen anything on this community, and I don’t want to get in trouble with my ISP since it’s the only reliable one in my area. If so, is it exclusively the paid tiers, or free tiers too?

  • myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website
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    4 months ago

    I have no experience with Windscribe other than that I recall looking into them when I was personally looking to replace Mullvad.

    All I can offer is that their pricing is pretty much on par with ProtonVPN, who I have found to be very solid.

    Proton also has a free tier, though I’m not sure how well P2P works on it.

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    4 months ago

    I have a lifetime subscription I’ve been using and have no complaints. I don’t torrent frequently (once a month or so) and haven’t had any issues from my isp.

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    4 months ago

    I used wind scribe for a few years for torrenting on my phone andpc and never had any trouble. Once I forgot to turn on the vpn while downloading a movie on my phone at work (using the companywifi 🤦) and got an email from IT saying they’d gotten a warning and not to do it again 🤣😬

    They do have a firewall option to prevent scenarios like that

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    4 months ago

    Last I checked you need to purchase an addon to have port forwarding with Windscribe.

    These are good options in my experience that are P2P friendly and support port forwarding.

    • AirVPN: Relatively slow but stable, good company
    • OVPN: Some stability/app problems but fast
    • AzireVPN: Lacking features but overall good and fast

    Air is the cheapest out of the bunch, they might still have a sale going on now.

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    4 months ago

    I would recommend ProtonVPN, Windscribe is kinda predatory in their pricing and I don’t appreciate it