Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads

[Stephen Partington]

OK, this is actually kind of interesting. Helps you calculate torrent
settings based on your available upload/download.
http://infinite-source.de/az/az-calc.html

On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:12 PM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> > 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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