The original post: /r/torrents by /u/TheKrzysiek on 2025-03-11 20:59:37.

First of all, I never been good with networking so excuse my incompetence.

I’ve wanted to try port forwarding to get more seeds on torrents with very few of them, but I couldn’t access the settings of my main router (my home router is connected to another one). I’ve heard that with a VPN you can do it too, so I tried AirVPN.

I connected to a VPN, set up the port forwarding on their site and put the port into qbittorrent, and while it seems to atleast not break it and it shows that the port is open on their site, I didn’t notice much difference in the number of seeds, and if I try to test if the port is open on any other site it doesn’t work.

I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong, if it should be like that, or if I misunderstood the whole thing.