You have to assign the port to your account here at AirVPN (assuming it's available). Manually assigning a port on Transmission is not enough to enable port forwarding. If anyone has advice or would be able to guide me towards a solution, that would be fantastic! I can provide more information if necessary.
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I'm used to things "just working," so I have no real understanding of how to fix this problem. I tried to connect to a server in Germany, and the torrent located 5 peers, but the download would start and then instantly drop to 0.0kb/s. Transmission listed the port as being open, but no peers were found as well.
I briefly read about Port Forwarding (I find this topic confusing for some reason) and manually entered a port number. Afterwards, I checked the preferences in Transmission and noticed that it listed the port as being closed. I tried using the AirVPN client Eddie and had the same result. When I connected to Tunnelblick using the Netherland server option, peers would not appear and the download would not start. Recently, I have run into issues using Transmission and the AirVPN service. I would connect to one of the Netherland servers through the Tunnelblick Client and get good speeds overall. Previously, I never had any issues downloading torrents through Transmission. I've been using AirVPN for a few years now. Please excuse this post if a question similar to this has been answered previously. I don't have much of an understanding (if any at all) of the technical aspects VPNs, port forwarding, etc.