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There is one, actually: Use DNS names to get the best server for every region from the perspective of the server itself.

No, if all peers were not reachable BitTorrent would not work at all. The reason is trivial, just study how the protocol works. Actually there are many "dead torrents" not because there are no peers with the complete file, but because those peers in the swarm are active but not reachable. You have the impression that torrenting works even if some peers in a swarm are unreachable only because there are peers which are reachable in that swarm, so unreachable nodes (leechers) can keep leeching. This is the essence of the claims "you can keep torrenting even without remote port forwarding": yes, provided that parasites in a swarm can leech thanks to the effort of others. Maybe you should study how the protocol works before insulting. We're momentarily locking this thread, too many off topics are making it confusing. Kind regards

@Undated8198 Hello, we have no plans to remove port forwarding, quite the contrary: we are currently deploying resources to delay port exhaustion and find alternative, but comfortable, procedures to keep offering this service in anticipation of port exhaustion. As you can see we already limited to new customers the amount of bookable ports, in order to preserve advertised features to those who are already our customers. We are committed to avoid retro-active modifications of the service for pre-existing customers, when such modifications would be detrimental for the service or anyway betraying an advertised feature. Kind regards

With news of Mullvad and now IVPN removing port forwarding, can we have assurance from staff that AirVPN is not planning to remove port forwarding?

I am in favor of having a slightly limited 20 ports for everyone, instead of 5 for new users. The main reason behind this is that while this change doesn't impact me currently, ports as they are now are finite and eventually, I can see a situation in which the system needs to be changed for all accounts. The easiest solution to me seems to be having ports allocated on a per-server basis: with around 60000 ports per server that would allow for 3000+ users to forward a full 20 ports on the same server. If somehow a server ran out of ports in that instance, another could be purchased in the same location/datacenter. For my own port forwarding applications, I am constantly connected to the same server and don't mind briefly losing the ports if I need to switch locations.