I want to turn off my PC but I’m the only seed for an unpopular linux distro. The downloader obviously has it capped at 1MB/s so it’s crawling slowly… just a couple minutes now…
I have my download at 10MB and upload at 5MB. I don’t want to hog all the bandwidth from my family and I don’t need it any faster anyway. I never see the upload reach the cap.
No. My VPN is the bottleneck anyway.
No cap fam lit 💯 or whatever
I typically cap only to try to avoid any unnecessary heat from the man at my ISP. Keep a low profile is my mantra.
That used to be my approach, but since I got symmetric 1Gb/s fibre I’ve found that if I leave it uncapped anything I download completes in a few minutes and I don’t download anything popular so I don’t have to worry about uploading too much.
I use a crappy wifi card so I dont need software to cap the speed
Seeding isn’t capped because I have 100/100 and who the fuck needs 100 up all the time?
Downloading is capped during normal day use to 70% of my network because I love my wife and want her to have Internet
Capped - gotta keep the connection usable and in my eyes availability > speed.
Very few things I need “right now” so I can be patient as not being able to find something can be much more frustrating.
Saying that, if you need to switch off, do so. If they really want it, they’ll leave it queued and it’s not on you to act as the entire distribution source (unless it’s your distro!)
Same approach, especially now that I upgraded my storage. Got a ratio of 135 on one file, no idea how or why though
I have a 500/500 fiber connection, so generally a torrent download is the only thing that can actually make use of the entire capacity. So, I usually cap download speeds at 350Mbps as to not choke out the rest of my devices, but I leave upload uncapped because it never reaches high enough to have a noticable effect.
I cap my bandwidth at 50% of my max upload and download speed during the day and 80% of max during night when I’m usually asleep using qBittorrent’s schedule feature.
Yes. I cap upload and download, so the rest of my network runs smoothly. I then seed forever, so if anyone wants it, they can have it if they’re patient.
I seed without cap, don’t really need my upload for anything else. (500 Mbps)
What’s the distro? I can help seed it indefinitely with open ports.
That’s awesome of you to offer to help seed! I appreciate people like you :)
Have a server with 1gb/s parallel why would i? The limit is usually the other side.
This for me, as well. I have never had an impact on the rest of my network from uncapped torrent speeds with parallel gigabit, so I don’t care to cap it.
Some do it to keep low profile but thats not my problem, i pay for a unlimited VPN plan and im shure as hell gonna use it.
The problem is that the uploader usually caps it.
I don’t torrent much, but my NZB and torrent clients both get throttled on a schedule. I have no need for my automations to go fast or fill up my NAS overnight (slight hyperbole but I do often get 50MB/sec on well-hosted downloads, which is not sustainable in terms of storage cost.)
I pause during the day for work, low throttle (500KB/s) during non-work hours in morning and evening, and at night once we’re asleep a moderate cap (5MB/sec. ) I also have some mild traffic shaping QoS on the router so the kids streaming won’t affect my Zoom meetings, for example.
Things added manually go straight to the top of the queue, and sometimes I’ll un-throttle for a particular download that I’m waiting for.
Send me magnet for the torrent, for poorly available stuff I set a 10:1 seed ratio, so I’ll be seeding it for a while. I don’t cap my upload speed, but it isn’t great
I don’t. I have 1GB/1GB so there is not really a need to.
I have 1000/200, but even then, my upload has never been maxed. That said, I mostly seed ebooks, lol.
I have no caps for my normal speed mode in qbittorrent but in alternative speed mode I have it capped to 500 KB/s. I have it set to switch automatically to alt speed mode around the time my spouse gets home from work. If I leave it uncapped, it slows the Internet on their end because of bandwidth presumably.
