Im getting back to dowloading Linux distros for the first time in over a decade…man have the times changed. I’m running qBittorrent with all the major repos including Jackett…but everything is downloading <10KiB/s?! Surely something is wrong, any ideas?
Edit: I am using a paid VPN
Make sure you’ve enabled PEX, DHT etc, also update your tracker list using the lists here: https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist
Both were already enabled, but I manually added every tracker listed to cover my bases (both DNSs and IPs). I reannounced, but the speed hasn’t improved.
Have you limited upload? The BitTorrent protocol needs some amount of upload to sustain download speeds and throttling upload can mess it up.
I did limit the upload, what’s a good setting?
There really isnt a good reason to limit upload unless you have other devices that need the upload capacity on your Internet connection. It’s best to leave it uncapped. Limiting upload doesn’t prevent ISP or Copyright holders from viewing your IP. Torrent clients will do this automatically if left un capped but you want it to be about 70-80% of your max real upload speed.
If you’re not using a vpn your internet is probably getting throttled.
Make sure you are fully connectable (port forwarded). To check this you will want to test your torrent client’s incoming connection port with a 3rd party port test website e.g. https://www.canyouseeme.org/, https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/, https://portchecker.co/, etc. Those websites should be able to successfully connect to your torrent client’s incoming connections port. If the test fails then you need to look at adding an incoming port forward in your network router’s configuration.
Also make sure DHT/PEX is enabled in your torrent client (those are enabled by default).
PS - The above is if you’re not using a VPN/Proxy (you didn’t mention using one)… definitely don’t re-configure your router configuration if you intend to use a VPN/Proxy, all port forwarding needs to happen on the VPN/Proxy server in those cases.
I torrent with a VPN and without port forwarding and can saturate my 20Mbps up and 100Mbps of my 300Mbps down. I don’t think port forwarding is the issue.
Any solutions for people whose VPNs do not offer port forwarding?
It is impossible to port forward with a VPN service that does not offer port forwarding. You’d have to subscribe to a different VPN provider.
Probably a ports issue if it’s that slow.
