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Wanting to torrent in a country other than my own, I've been exiting via Singapore as it has the most direct path I believe. Any reason not to ? Any superior choices for whatever reason ? Couldn't find this discussed anywhere. TIA.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I live in Malaysia (previously China) and have been using HK and Singapore pretty much ever since, with no issues for ~6 years.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So, by way of answering my own question, I found this map, which lets you work it out for yourself. Interesting stuff.

Which brings me to the question of how to benchmark now that I can make good guesses. Speedtest to US and Europe?

ETA: For those that follow, what I did was spin up multiple gluetun instances, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, hook them to firefox with FoxyProxy (different ports, duh) and compare speeds on https://librespeed.org/. Bottom line was the bottleneck was my ISP (surprise!!)

Still, I suspect there are ways to leverage crap internet to useful torrenting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Singapore is usually the best for me but if not you could use Japan or Hong Kong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Japan. Any other places have some places where speed suffers because they eventually go through Japan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'd be going through Singapore to get to Japan, so I doubt that'd be better... Hmm maybe, after looking at the map, it might actually work out better, depends on how saturated the direct cable is I guess.