It can still ruin your ping when downloading.
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dan@upvote.au 9 months agoWhy 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.
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 9 months ago
maus@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Not if you properly setup your limits… and symmetrical fiber has become much more common.
mara@pawb.social 9 months 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 9 months ago
That’s why you use a VPN that allows port forwarding.
mara@pawb.social 9 months 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…