I have been seeding so many "Linux ISOs" and "Big Buck Bunny.avi" (copyright friendly open source movie) that my regular internet speed has ground to a halt. I've got my up bandwidth *saturated* over here 😎
@dade It's actually so funny when I start hitting hardware limits because my little NAS is absolutely *straining* to make sense of it.
@mauve when I got my first gigabit Internet connection, my torrent client would download a whole bunch in a burst and then stop for a minute or so. Turns out it was filling the memory buffer so much faster than it could write to disk that it had to stop 4-5 times per Linux iso to wait for the cache to flush 😂 I had to upgrade to downloading to SSDs then seeding from HDD.
@dade Oh wow I haven't even thought to optimize this. The selection for me is really random and Injust do whatsber the default settings can handle. Sometimes I stop seeding stuff that's wellbseeded anyway to ptioritize the lower seeder ones when I'm saturated.
@mauve who do you use as a provider that doesn't have a data cap. Mine is 2 tb and I'm constantly hitting it each month.
@skryking I'm in Ottawa, Canada and use Bell Fibe. Unsure about other regions. 😅 I've fog like terabytes up in a month over here. Defs getting my money's worth 😝
@mauve time to enable speed limits!
@makeworld Yeah I wish the Synology Download Station could let me schedule bandwidth limits. I'm usually not using much internet outside of work hours for calls.
@mauve I was seeding so many Linux isos and Tears of Steel recently that I learned qbittorrent only allows 999 active torrents. It's a busy day in the life of a Linux iso enthusiast.