It’s probably a stupid question… But if I notice I’m not getting much upload activity on my seeds, I’ll often intentionally just hop over to a random country and see what happens. For example last night I noticed that my uploads had been limited to 1 or 2 <100kB/s peers for the last few days while connected to a US server. Clicked over to a Venezuelan server and almost immediately got about 20 connections that have been sitting between 5-10MB/s total upload ever since.
Makes me feel like an international Johnny Appleseed, except with media and stuff. 😎 Though it’s a little surprising to me that there would be such a huge difference in seeding effectiveness depending on where your VPN’s endpoint is. Whatever works I guess!
The only downside is it can make web browsing and shopping a bit of a pain. But that’s my own fault for not taking 10 minutes to figure out how to set up split tunneling or just hosting qBittorrent on my media server…
The only downside is it can make web browsing and shopping a bit of a pain. But that’s my own fault for not taking 10 minutes to figure out how to set up split tunneling or just hosting qBittorrent on my media server…
Advice: Look up Gluetun and dockerize your torrent/vpn setup. Makes things real simple (including moving where it is hosted, should you choose to)
Appreciate the advice!
I’m running Unraid, but still figuring out the nuts and bolts of dockers so this sounds like a handy tool.
Does anyone know why this happens? Do people configure limits based on location in their torrent clients?
It’s probably torrent clients doing a ping test of peers to check latency. Ops VPN server replies to the ping so they look close, even though they’re not.
I can’t imagine a client that would ship an ip2geo db to bother trying to look up locations. Just doesn’t make any sense.
Presumably it’s automatically set by the torrent client. Maybe it’s an IP thing. Has Op Tried changing between servers of the same country?
I certainly haven’t done any scientific testing, but I generally don’t see the same thing happen when changing servers within the US.
Someone else commented it being a ping thing, where the exit server responds. I think I agree with that. Whats the user agent for these peers?
Sorry, not sure if this is exactly what you’re asking, but scanning through the peers I’m connected to now it’s around 75% qBittorrent.
