Thanks for sharing! I still need the script because I already have a tunnel on a Mikrotik OS vm router to route all my containers through the vpn.

I created a simple script to automatically request a port to ProtonVPN servers and assign it to qbittorrent:

https://github.com/giu176/ProtonVPN-auto-NATPMP

I created a script exactly for that, I’m using it for months now and it’s working fine: https://github.com/giu176/ProtonVPN-auto-NATPMP

Here is your STL, thank you for your patience: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6376454

Finally: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6376454

So true

Me and my friend were stupid I can’t blame the school

I know, I know. But when I learned how to use a computer at school 20 years ago it wasn’t an option or if it was the teachers didn’t want to take any risk.

Same, and remember, go to the windows logo and press shutdown, don’t use the power button on the case!

Martin Router King, from my wireless internet exam last semester

Finally, clock 2

If you are using Linux I wrote a script just for that!

https://github.com/giu176/ProtonVPN-auto-NATPMP

I’m using it on my headless server and it worked fine for the last two months. Tell me if you need help in the setup (the Readme should be exhaustive).

Thank you for the time and effort in the reply. The information you gave are very useful.

Thank you for the clarification! I’ll move to a different solution for my setup then.

There are two things that worked for me when I was in your situation:

• Playing with friends, of course it applies only to multilayer games and scheduling free time for two or more people could be difficult but it works so well for this problem. We have a WhatsApp group to coordinate some gaming nights and play rocket league, age of empires 2, cs go, overwatch and others, recently we are replaying DS3 next will be elden ring when the dlc drops.

• Review games. I know it sounds absurd but I put some effort into creating an excel sheet with all the games I played and I reviewed them on what I think are the most significant aspects (characters design, level design, story, gameplay loop, graphics, sound, optimization just to name a few) I reached several reviews of the sheet and now it’s very complete and complex. I like to complete games, fill the form and add them to the list, I usually complete at least the main quest, anyway Icontinue to play the game until I’m satisfied and I’ve elaborate a score for each category. This helped me reasoning on the game development, what it wants to tell me, the evolution of the gaming industry, I’ve figured out what I like and what not, all of this combined with the the genuine excitement about starting a new game to add to the list it’s what re-enabled my passion when I was stucked like you are.

I hope this can help you. Send me a private message if you want to add me on steam and play sometimes or if you want a copy of the spreadsheet!

Thanks for all the useful informations. In my current setup I use a Proton vpn tunnel on a mikrotik router to route all the traffic from my torrenting machines through it, the only problem is that the router doesn’t support NAT-PMP which is used by Proton to open ports on their side of the tunnel. Is this a problem? If I understand correctly PF does not influence my ability to download but only my uploads (without PF my files can’t be accessed via TCP I guess). I don’t think I need PF because I already had to limit my uploads because of my shitty internet connection, in good days I have 2Mbps upload, this limited bandwidth was always saturated by qbittorrent. I know that it’s not fair p2p but otherwise I couldn’t even use my internet.

I’m asking for confirmation here, when I’ll move to a place with fiber I’ll change my setup for sure! Or maybe I’ll go through some load balancing shenanigans on my network and re-enable uploads in some way…

I’m going to mod the PC of a friend soon, I will share a guide if you are interested.

I’m using AIDA64 Extreme, the paid version ha a sensor panel feature that is so good that I can’t explain, so here some photos:

• How it looks in the case: https://ibb.co/4N9jJXV
• Screenshot of the last iteration (changed font and moved some elements): https://ibb.co/YBPFZwz
• Purple variant: https://ibb.co/92LQtpn

If you are a pc enthusiast I’m going to say you need a sensor panel. I built one myself, 7" lcd display and driver board costs less then 30€ and the result is incredible. I always look at it for any sort of reason it has temperatures, FPS, cpu/gpu/ram usage, network bandwidth… I always know what’s going on!

Spooky box for the black cat