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Comment by Hamuko

3 years ago

I'm having a hard time understanding the point of this setup.

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justsomehnguy  3 years ago

Seedbox has a real IP (or port forward, though that doesn't matter here) so seed and peers behind the NAT can coonect to it and transfer torrent data. Your home torrent client therefore can connect to it and receive the torrent data even if it can't connect to the seed directly.

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