Question about upload speeds (torrenting) (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by HotCoffee@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Fellow Scallywags, I'm trying to share my booty (not that one). But my average upload speed is 294,4 kiB/s, while my average download is 6.1MiB/s.

I've tried ProtonVPN port forwarding, but that doesn't seem to increase it much more than compared to Mullvad without port forwarding.

Is it nomal that uploading is this much less than downloading? What can I do to increase upload speeds? Using qbittorrent.

Okay so I've found that it's related to connection limits, while writing this post up; the old just search it up.

So instead what are some good tips regarding connection limits?

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[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 3 points 3 months ago

I run 4 vms that are seedboxes. Each are on vpns and I've observed them to hit up to ~90MBps, just shy of gigabit (I have 8gbps). Most of the time I'm not uploading much at all. It's not just you bandwidth and the VPN that matter. But also the peers that's making the request. Sometimes they just don't talk to you but the other peers. Or they don't have that much download bandwidth. The only real way to test is to self host your own torrent and grab it from a controlled outside peer. See what it actually gets when you pull directly.