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is it considered rude to limit my upload in qbittorrent? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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background; i had all my torrents seeding forever and i never set a limit mostly because when i set up qbittorrent i was new and never really went into options.

i want to be able to control and limit the bandwidth i use but is 50kb/s during the day/10kb/s at night unreasonable? i dont want to be rude or make it hard for people to get things but i also just don't want thinks to balloon out of control (before i just keep everything in seeding perpetually just because i never bothered to look).

am i being unreasonable with limits? i obviously dont want to download and just stop; i always want to at least share back to at least 1.

these are mostly public trackers btw

thanks <3

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[–] [S] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

i only did it at 50 kbs for now because i was at like 6tb or whatever before and i wanted to stabilise before gradually moving back up :)

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Keep in mind QBit uses kibibyte units while your ISP reports speeds in megabits. You can also set it to change speeds depending on the time of day. I have mine limited during the hours I typically have people streaming from my server and have it uncapped from like 2am - 8am.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    I've found that around 70% of my connection's max upload speed is the sweet spot for keeping things speedy, but I only do that if I want something fast and there aren't many seeders. I typically download at 20% of my bandwidth and upload at 10% so when it's rocking I don't affect anyone else on my network. I don't have symmetrical up-down so my upload limit is a little above 10% of my download limit.

    For Linux ISOs, of course.

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