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Getting varied download speeds in Qbittorrent? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi there, I'm still a bit new to downloading .iso's, but think i've got the gist of it. I've been following the Trash guides along the way. However one thing that I don't understand is why Im getting such varied download speeds for the .iso's im downloading. Some of them will download at KiB speed others will be downloading at mbs speed. As far as I know, I can not download any faster than whatever the speed its being uploaded, correct?

Is there anything I can do to improve these speeds? I have 1000mbs/50mbps from ISP. I've also setup qbitorrent to sit behind gluetun+openvpn connection from ProtonVPN. Other than that there are some config changes which have been done according to TrashGuides recommendations.

Thanks for any suggestions! 🏴‍☠️

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Well, at the moment you're downloading that file from only 1 seed, can't do anything about that, and they're probably seeding a lot of different stuff and so can allocate to you only that much bandwidth. You can't do much about it except for waiting, maybe someone else will seed to you later

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Ok thanks for the clarification!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Make sure that port forwarding is actually working - on ProtonVPN the port allocated to you can change regularly and QBittorent's settings need to be updated accordingly. Easiest way to check is to click through your active torrents and check if any peer has the I (incoming) flag.

If you have not set up something like this, port forwarding is probably not working: https://github.com/mjmeli/qbittorrent-port-forward-gluetun-server

I would personally just run the plain script as a cronjob on the host though, to not rely on some random docker image.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thank you, I believe I did do this but will definitely double check 👍

[–] LazerDickMcCheese 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm having a similar issue myself. I followed the trash guides, and ended up consistently pulling torrents with 1 or 0 seeds despite setting the minimum seeders in prowlarr to 5. Manually searching fixes it, but also defeats the purpose

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Public trackers notoriously over-report active seeders. Raise your required number in Prowlarr much higher until you get on private trackers.

[–] LazerDickMcCheese 2 points 3 months ago

I set the minimum to 5 seeders, and I'm on 3 private trackers and raised their priority. Prowlarr doesn't seem to care

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What theme is that? I've tried a few but they never look that good.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's actually the extension called; https://darkreader.org/

This is my config:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, I was hoping for something native as I access it from multiple devices. Thanks though, I'll check it out!