Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads

[Michael Butash]

> How fast is your Century Link service?  Are you stuck with dsl or do
> they offer something faster?  I've heard that many ISPs are imposing
> data caps now so they can screw people out of more money.

I have dsl here 140mbps down, older peoria, so not graced with anything
beyond such as fiber.  My cousin a mile away can't even get the 140 in his
area.  Again cox is better/faster service, but I'm not for paying their
random cap overages.

I know people with their fiber, but with Centurylink's peering being
visible poop and heavily oversubscribed (both dsl and fiber share this I
presume), I can't imagine even at a gig it's that great to use.

> I use protonvpn.  It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty
> emials from my ISP.

I use PIA here, one of the oldest, most reliable, and hasn't showed up on
the news for bad things (yet).

-mb


On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 8:27 PM Jim <azanorak at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 6/23/19 2:24 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
> > I find you're only as fast as your 1) home isp connection and 2)
> > torrent peer(s).
> I know this.  I've got 10 Mbits down and 1 up.
> > Sometimes your speed as only good as your isp, particularly depending
> > if your isp is hating on your torrenting.  Comcast has been known to
> > rate limit torrents actively, thus net neutrality debates were born.
> > I find using CenturyLink, it is always oversubscribed in their local
> > peering, so things tend to be a bit slow at first, but otherwise
> > window up fast to max bandwidth if enough peers.  Cox charges
> > bandwidth overages now, but their service (internet peering) is
> > generally better quality.  I don't like random surprise overages after
> > watching some 4k movies, so I'm now with CL with no caps.
>
> How fast is your Century Link service?  Are you stuck with dsl or do
> they offer something faster?  I've heard that many ISPs are imposing
> data caps now so they can screw people out of more money.
>
> > You should never, ever get torrents from your direct home IP.  Just
> > don't - you are inviting problems.  Get a reliable, trustworthy vpn
> > service.  This influences again how fast you are downloading, make
> > sure your vpn gives you good speed too.
> I got one of those threatening emails from AT&T saying I've been naughty
> and listing the torrent in question.  I use a VPN now and get no more
> nasty emails from the isp.
> >
> > Almost any residential service, dsl or cable are asynchronous transfer
> > rates, meaning faster to download than upload.  Interesting thing with
> > cable particularly, uploading at capacity tends to influence your
> > downstream rates in bad ways.  If you are maxing out your upstream to
> > seed, your downloads are likely affected in some way.  It's a long
> > answer why, read up on docsis if interested.  Limit your upstream
> > rates in your torrent client/server to a respectable number is the
> > short of this.
> >
> > Torrents tend to create a _lot_ of packet per seconds and connections
> > - make sure your router/firewall can handle this.  I've seen
> > torrenting kill enterprise firewalls in session/pps counts.
> > Connection counts affect memory, and might/will kill a cheapo router.
> > I see this occasionally with customer "incidents" when doing
> > network/security consulting, and finding someone doing something
> > stupid like installing a torrent client on their work computer as they
> > end up being a top-talker I find with simple source flow counts for
> > *abnormal* traffic.  I've also had roommates kill my firewall doing
> > this, before I find, block, and threaten them with no internet access
> > ever again.
>
> I used to have a roommate about 10 years ago who bogged down my internet
> connection with his stupid online shoot em up games.  I couldn't
> download anything.  I'd connect to the router and see that he was
> downloading little but maxing out the upload speed. It must have been
> something to do with that docsis issue you mentioned.  I fixed the
> problem by setting a limit on his upload speed so he only got half of
> what was available.  He complained when implementing this change kicked
> him offline for a minute or so, but not after that
>
> > I don't find a lot of other optimization of clients are necessary.  I
> > use a transmission-remote server and otherwise feed everything through
> > that as a server appliance from numerous clients on the lan (desktop,
> > laptop, phone, sometimes remote), and all torrent collection show up
> > as from an eu country via my vpn service.  Above guidelines are quite
> > good for my purposes.
> >
> > -mb
>
> I use protonvpn.  It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty
> emials from my ISP.  Thanks for your reply and also thanks to everyone
> else who replied.
>
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