I want to turn off my PC but I’m the only seed for an unpopular linux distro. The downloader obviously has it capped at 1MB/s so it’s crawling slowly… just a couple minutes now…
I have my download at 10MB and upload at 5MB. I don’t want to hog all the bandwidth from my family and I don’t need it any faster anyway. I never see the upload reach the cap.
I have my qbittorrent containters capped to seed about 20 - 30 GiB per day, 300KiB/s on each container. I’m seeding about 1400 torrents but since we have “unlimited” data allowances that aren’t actually unlimited I have to cap it. It sucks seeing some torrents seeding at 20KiB/s but at least they’ll eventually get it fully downloaded I suppose.
I also set anything over a 5 ratio to superseed mode so more popular torrents don’t hog too much bandwidth
I typically cap only to try to avoid any unnecessary heat from the man at my ISP. Keep a low profile is my mantra.
That used to be my approach, but since I got symmetric 1Gb/s fibre I’ve found that if I leave it uncapped anything I download completes in a few minutes and I don’t download anything popular so I don’t have to worry about uploading too much.
I don’t torrent much, but my NZB and torrent clients both get throttled on a schedule. I have no need for my automations to go fast or fill up my NAS overnight (slight hyperbole but I do often get 50MB/sec on well-hosted downloads, which is not sustainable in terms of storage cost.)
I pause during the day for work, low throttle (500KB/s) during non-work hours in morning and evening, and at night once we’re asleep a moderate cap (5MB/sec. ) I also have some mild traffic shaping QoS on the router so the kids streaming won’t affect my Zoom meetings, for example.
Things added manually go straight to the top of the queue, and sometimes I’ll un-throttle for a particular download that I’m waiting for.
I have a 500/500 fiber connection, so generally a torrent download is the only thing that can actually make use of the entire capacity. So, I usually cap download speeds at 350Mbps as to not choke out the rest of my devices, but I leave upload uncapped because it never reaches high enough to have a noticable effect.
No. My VPN is the bottleneck anyway.
I don’t. I have 1GB/1GB so there is not really a need to.
I have 1000/200, but even then, my upload has never been maxed. That said, I mostly seed ebooks, lol.
When I downloaded at home, I would cap my speeds or my internet would be unusable for anything else. Now I use a seedbox and it’s only limited by the hard drive speed.
you’re a pirate. you don’t owe anyone anything! arrrrgh!
Actual pirate ships were very democratic generally. When splitting the bounty, everyone got an equal share. Maybe 2 shares for the navigator and 1.5 for the captain. But that’s it.
So while they didn’t care much for non-pirates, they certainly treated each other fairly.
Obligatory: https://youtube.com/watch?v=T0fAznO1wA8
I hope you still have that thought when you are waiting for a torrent with 2 seeders and 40 kb/s.
I have my seeding capped at 1.0 ratio because I have torrent on my home server which I use also for other things like matrix and it works like shit when it’s seeding a lot. I already figured out a solution but I need money for that, so for the time being it has to be like this.
Send me magnet for the torrent, for poorly available stuff I set a 10:1 seed ratio, so I’ll be seeding it for a while. I don’t cap my upload speed, but it isn’t great
Uncapped. I have gigabit fiber internet and no reason to cap. I have some where I have a 50:1 ratio.
I have it capped because I’m sharing the bandwidth with three other people, like you I suppose.
we have 50 MB/s and i have capped my gf’s phone dl speed to 3 so she would get mad and pay for a faster connection
I used to, because I had a buggy TP-Link modem/router, & adding a cap was the only way that port forwarding would magically start to work. I have no idea why. The bug never got fixed.
I’m very lucky to have 30€ 1Gb/~0.7Gb and the option to hop on the new freebox with symmetrical 8Gb for 40€/month. So today if I need to cap I’d just use my old 100Mb switch for my server I guess.
Not that I need it today (like at all), but I could host art videos (for example) or help out maybe. Thinking about it I should probably help and then bump up when needed…
What do you do with your big uploads, hey guys 😊 (jk ofc)?
I’m still working on my sharing protocol so as soon as I have time l’ll make a big node for it to try to jumpstart FOSS websites, I probably do the jump then.
Cheers and long live the free internet 💖
