• Ignotum@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    A buddy was living with me for like two years or so, we had a lot of network issues, suddenly slowing down, not having nearly the speed we were supposed to,

    Not long before he moved out i saw his torrent stats, while staying with me he had downloaded about 100GB, and seeded around 700TB!

    This son of a gun had disabled any rate limit and been seeding at full capacity for two goddamn years, i haven’t had any network issues since

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      And this is why I have my own router. Fuck the shitty router that the ISP sends you. I can see exactly how much traffic each device is creating, and throttle devices if needed. If I wanted to enable snooping, I could even see which specific services/apps/etc are creating the traffic. So like I’d be able to see a big spike in torrenting traffic.

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      10 months ago

      Christ, I have it running 24/7 and I’m only at ~1.5TB of uploads. Tbf as pointed out elsewhere I’m “competing” with seedboxes so not hugely surprising.

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      10 months ago

      I don’t set a speed limit but I use wifi for seeding so I don’t get priority anyways.