Then you can just use a seed box on top of your downloading
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dan@upvote.au 1 year agoYou need it for file sharing apps like BitTorrent or Soulseek, if you don’t want to be seen as a leech and/or you want to use private trackers where you need to maintain a good ratio. :)
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 1 year ago
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
Why would you use a seedbox if you have a home server? The home server can be the seedbox. A lot of homelabbers would have a good enough connection for it.
mara@pawb.social 1 year ago
Generally when you download files over torrent through your ISP, you end up getting love letters from rightsholders. I personally use a homelab NAS as my seedbox and for my public tracker stuff (as well as anime downloads over XDCC) I use Mullvad. I don’t seed overly much on public trackers because of it, but my ratio on private trackers is sky high because ISPs won’t send love letters for private trackers.
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
Generally when you download files over torrent through your ISP, you end up getting love letters from rightsholder
That’s why you use a VPN that allows port forwarding.
mara@pawb.social 1 year ago
For the record, I’m pretty sure using Mullvad for XDCC is super overkill, but I wanted to have an excuse to break out userspace wireguard in a project and writing it all in Go made it so damn easy: github.com/…/3d0647e946014516df33de0b18d2a16eec83…
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 1 year ago
It can still ruin your ping when downloading.
maus@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Not if you properly setup your limits… and symmetrical fiber has become much more common.
HellAwaits@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You’re putting a lot of trust into these services that can just disappear one day. I’d rather rely on my own TrueNAS system, thanks.
retro@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Most private trackers don’t allow a shared VPN like Mullvad anyway. Some do but most don’t.
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Most private trackers don’t allow you to browse the tracker site from a shared VPN, but I’ve never seen one that doesn’t allow your torrent client to connect over one. That would make no sense.
yote_zip@pawb.social 1 year ago
I haven’t personally seen a private tracker that blocks your actual bittorrent announces to the tracker with a VPN, though I know a couple prevent you from browsing the site itself with one.