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Journal of Runaway1956 (2926)
Well, we've had bittorrent in our home for - a long, long time. Search for a movie or something, start it downloading, and come back tomorrow to watch the movie. Nothing exciting, just file sharing.
With the upgrade to fiber, we expected to see amazing download and upload speeds. Mehhh - instead speeds were mostly still measured in k per second, sometimes reaching 1 or 2 M/s. Somewhat awesome to most members of the household, but, FFS, we now have fast internet! Where's my 100 meg?
I diddled around with it for awhile yesterday. Yes, of course we run BT on a VPN. Yes, of course I've gone through BT settings, and optimized according to guides available on the internet. Multiple times, actually.
Finally stumbled over the fact that I must REQUEST port forwarding from the VPN. Oh. Well. How do I do that? Check VPN settings, and right there all the time, is a setting, "Request Port Forwarding". Now, why didn't I give any thought to that setting? Click the box, and find that I'm limited to just a few servers. My "favorite" VPN server doesn't offer port forwarding. That's alright though, I don't really have a favorite, I always choose the fastest.
So, reconnect to a server with port forwarding, I'm assigned a port for port forwarding, and I go back into Bittorrent settings. I assign the listening port to match what VPN has assigned me, and BOOM!
Download speed jumped to 15M , and upload speed to 12M.
Speeds fluctuate, of course, depending on a whole lot of things, mostly the health of the torrent, and however the algorithms decide to connect seeds and peers. I've seen speeds dip to zero while I was watching, and I've seen the above mentioned speeds. It's entirely possible that Bittorrent actualy consumes all of my bandwidth from time to time. I suppose I should go back into settings, and cap speeds at 20 or 30 meg - but I'll just leave it at infinite for awhile, and see what happens.
THIS is what I was expecting when I subscribed to fiber internet. It only took me a couple weeks to figure out how to make it work.
EDIT
OK, bittorrent can be made almost unusable, with the use of fake downloaders. I've always seen them. At the bottom of the list of connected clients page, you'll see a bunch of bitstorm clients. They don't actually download or upload anything, they just keep your client busy with pointless connections. That, and bitlord. Both clients are ancient, no one with a lick of sense uses them to actually torrent.
Several searches, and I finally found a link pointing at https://github.com/c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition
Features:
Auto Ban Xunlei, QQ, Baidu, Xfplay, DLBT and Offline downloaderAuto Ban Unknown Peer from China Option (Default: OFF)
Auto Update Public Trackers List (Default: OFF)
Auto Ban BitTorrent Media Player Peer Option (Default: OFF)
Peer whitelist/blacklist
It works as advertised. All those bitstorm clients are gone, and I'm left with lists of clients actually performing the tasks that bittorrent was meant to do.
I highly recommend this client, if you torrent.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2022, @06:12PM (1 child)
If you don't, it chokes your internet. Cut uploads to about half to three quarters of the max.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2022, @09:42PM
Also cap downloads to 80% of your max bandwidth. BT sends more acks than just the TCP overhead and if your download is more than about 80% then it starts fluctuating because the acks can't get through.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by turgid on Friday October 07 2022, @06:33PM
When bittorrent first started, I used to use it to get my OS .iso images and it was great. As time went on, the Powers That Be decided that bittorrent == piracy and so it became harder and harder to use it effectively. Anyway, I gave up. I just use wget and rsync nowadays. It's their own bandwidth they're wasting.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: -1, Spam) by aristarchus 2 on Saturday October 08 2022, @02:12AM
Poor little RWNJ traitor baby couldn't download his illegal porn quickly enough, I see.
(Score: -1, Spam) by aristarchus 2 on Saturday October 08 2022, @03:10AM
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: SN is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SN community when IDC confirmed that SN posting has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of Slashdot. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SN has lost more users, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SN is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in a recent survey of news aggregators.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SN's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SN faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SN because SN is dying. Things are looking very bad for SN. As many of us are already aware, SN continues to lose users and subscribers. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SN is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its users. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time SN admins c0lo and The Mighty Buzzard only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SN is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot leader whipslash states that there are 7000 users of Slashdot. How many users of Pipedot are there? Let's see. The number of Slashdot versus Pipedot posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Pipedot users. SN posts on Usenet are about one hundredth of the volume of Pipedot posts. Therefore there are about 14 users of SN. A recent article put Hacker News at about 80 percent of the news aggregator market. Therefore there are (7000+1400)*4 = 33600 Hacker News users. This is consistent with the number of Hacker News Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of NCommander, abysmal management and so on, SN was taken over by martyb who is another troubled admin. Now martyb is also gone, and SN's corpse was turned over to Janrinok the Censor.
All major surveys show that SN has steadily declined in users and comments. SN is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SN is to survive at all it will be among gun nuts like Runaway and khallow. SN continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save SN from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SN is dead.
Fact: SN is dying