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Re:Mullvad: Removing the Support for Forwarded Ports by wincy on Monday May 29, 2023 @10:30AM (#36114371)
Because a least one person has to have forwarded ports for them to form a direct connection. [0]

This will degrade torrent performance and make torrenting worse, routers normally have uPnP enabled these days so we forget about it, but this will make it so you can’t connect to any other users who are also using Mullvad, for one.

[0]https://superuser.com/questions/1053414/how-does-port-forwar...

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Re:Mullvad: Removing the Support for Forwarded Ports by bscphil on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:08PM (#36116914)
> routers normally have uPnP enabled these days

From what I understand, uPnP took off for a while, but started to become much less common about a decade ago because of the security issues it caused. I think most routers come with it disabled by default now. (If you know of any surveys indicating otherwise, I'd be curious to read them.)

Part of it is that hole punching became a standard feature for new protocols, so the need to forward ports has been reduced.

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Re:Mullvad: Removing the Support for Forwarded Ports by dharmab on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:15PM (#36116997)
Most consumer routers I've seen come with UPnP on while SOHO routers require explicit configuration
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