So until now I always had closed ports because my ISP put me behind a CGNAT and can’t open ports (No I don’t need a vpn because no one cares in my country) Over time I just accepted that I cannot open ports but recently saw that if I tell them they will take me out of the CGNAT and be connectable, now I’m waiting for that.
Do you know what speed can you have before and after you open ports and more importantly what percent of peers have their ports open?
Download speed wasn’t really affected. But my uploading skyrocketed. I went from struggling to get 1.0 ratios to almost always getting 1.0 on even the most mediocre torrents.
The type of person to seed is more likely to open ports for this so if you didn’t have them open you’d be unaffected. But the type of person who mostly just leeches and doesn’t care about seeding probably wouldn’t notice because the seeders have their ports opened so they didn’t need to.