Getting varied download speeds in Qbittorrent? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hi there, I'm still a bit new to downloading .iso's, but think i've got the gist of it. I've been following the Trash guides along the way. However one thing that I don't understand is why Im getting such varied download speeds for the .iso's im downloading. Some of them will download at KiB speed others will be downloading at mbs speed. As far as I know, I can not download any faster than whatever the speed its being uploaded, correct?

Is there anything I can do to improve these speeds? I have 1000mbs/50mbps from ISP. I've also setup qbitorrent to sit behind gluetun+openvpn connection from ProtonVPN. Other than that there are some config changes which have been done according to TrashGuides recommendations.

Thanks for any suggestions! 🏴‍☠️

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[-] BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well, at the moment you're downloading that file from only 1 seed, can't do anything about that, and they're probably seeding a lot of different stuff and so can allocate to you only that much bandwidth. You can't do much about it except for waiting, maybe someone else will seed to you later