The original post: /r/piracy by /u/isademigod on 2025-02-19 21:37:41.
Despite having 2gbit fiber at my house, I almost never see my torrents seeding faster than 200mbps combined.
My setup is a bit complicated but pretty much this:
Truenas scale running on a Dell R740
Brocade ICX 6610 with 10g fiber
desktop via SMB, seeding 500 torrents on qbit and another 200 on tixati (in process of migrating)
out through a Unifi UDM pro via 10g uplink, speedtests around 2250mbps
first, some speedtest porn:
next, what my torrent client usually looks like:
and here’s my traffic usage for the last month or so:
Things I’ve ruled out:
- speeds from NAS to desktop: Copying a movie from the NAS transfers around 5.7-7.0 gbps.
- Speeds out to internet: tested the hell out of my connection, the only concerning result was https://testmy.net/upload, which uses small files to test, my result was 280mpbs.
- Antivirus: adding exceptions to windows defender doubled my peak throughput but did nothing to the seeding torrents.
- Torrent client: tried tixati, deluge and qbit (individually, and all at once) and no change. still not 100% sure my settings are optimal but maybe 89%
- Peers: not 100% ruled out, but with 700 torrents seeding, and a mix of public and private trackers, I would really expect somebody to be able to download from me faster than 200 megs.
- Router config: ports are all forwarded correctly, and all traffic inspection/analysis is turned off
- SMB: not fully ruled out either, but I started seeding with transmission directly on the NAS and didn’t really notice much difference. only tested a few of the most popular ones tho
The one really concerning thing I noticed, and why i’ve been trying to nail this down, is I uploaded my first torrents to a semi-private tracker the other day, and I expected to saturate my uplink due to people with seedboxes snatching it up off me.
Of the 3 torrents I uploaded, I never saw any get above 1-2mbps. 17 peers downloaded it in the first hour, and I never connected to more than 4 of them.
Is there something big im missing here? Any big seeders want to chime in on what their average speeds look like?