PIA bittorrent and port forwarding

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in Mac OS X VPN Setup
I have been using PIA for a while and using BitTorrent. I have been unable to sustain good upload speeds to others unless I am using port forwarding in a region that has it.  My question is, do I need to use port forwarding to upload to others or is there some other way around using port forward and being able to share effectively to others?

Thanks,

John

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  • Max-PMax-P
    Unfortunately, no. The very reason port forwarding helps and works so well is because a lot of people also don't have port forwarding enabled.

    The problem that enabling port forwarding solves is that in order for you to download from or upload to someone, the two computers needs to establish a connection. There is two ways to accomplish this: you can connect to the other peer, or the other peer can connect to you. In order for you to be able to connect to another peer, this peer needs to be reachable, which means they need to have port forwarding on their end. And for the other way, you need to have an open port for them to connect to you (and possibly bypass their NAT problem).

    When neither end have an open port that's reachable via the Internet, they simply cannot connect together! Setting up port forwarding on your end means that suddenly, you gain access to all those peers that can't talk to eachother. As a result, those peers are typically also the less busy peers of the network and have plenty of bandwidth to download from or upload to them.
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