FundMECFS to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 7 months agoHow is the Piracy community adapting to port forwarding becoming a rarer premium feature, and most users on public trackers do not have it? Is the bitorrent protocol in need of update?message-square112fedilinkarrow-up1204arrow-down15
arrow-up1199arrow-down1message-squareHow is the Piracy community adapting to port forwarding becoming a rarer premium feature, and most users on public trackers do not have it? Is the bitorrent protocol in need of update?FundMECFS to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square112fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•7 months agowhy is port forwarding a premium feature? isn’t it just a setting on your router
minus-squareKanelinkfedilinkEnglish11•7 months agoThere are providers that do not provide you your own IPv4 address, with a feature called “CGNAT”. Often, they will then block you from port-forwarding altogether.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•7 months agoBc $$$. My provider won’t allow it unless I pay them $15/mo extra. You can change the setting on your router anytime but it won’t work if your ISP doesn’t actually allow it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoLikely they don’t have enough IPs to go around
why is port forwarding a premium feature? isn’t it just a setting on your router
There are providers that do not provide you your own IPv4 address, with a feature called “CGNAT”. Often, they will then block you from port-forwarding altogether.
that is wild, man
Bc $$$.
My provider won’t allow it unless I pay them $15/mo extra.
You can change the setting on your router anytime but it won’t work if your ISP doesn’t actually allow it.
Likely they don’t have enough IPs to go around