Comment on Mullvad VPN: Fourth Infrastructure audit completed by Cure53

• queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My internet isnt fast enough, My average download speed for the entire place is maybe 18 MB/s, and 0.5 MB/s upload.

  Torrenting helps solve the problem as I can just tell it to download in chunks and then turn it off when I need more leg room on my copper wire internet from 2003 that AT&T doesn’t change.

  I have some of the slowest speeds where 4G Data is a massive upgrade, so when I need to offload some jpgs to discord or something, its faster if I just send them to my phone and upload that way.

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  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And that is exactly the reason to use a seedbox. You can leave it in the cloud to seed at gigabit speeds whilst you can download at your leisure and not worry about tormenting at all on your computer. Also it’s less expensive than Mullvad but you likely can’t pay with XMR/cash if that’s a deal breaker

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    • queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have tried a seedbox before, but the bottleneck is the last mile of my home internet. I just have a Raspberry Pi 3B+ hooked onto my router via ethernet. I just log onto qBittorrent and tell it to go as I sleep, and turn it off when I wake up. The downloading is done already onto a spare laptop drive I have, and then I watch it via Jellyfin or sneakernet it over to a friend.

      I won’t say a seedbox is useless, I think it’s great, but due to how my living works, it’s not great. I’ve waited several minutes for a few PNGs to download, game updates often take hours. Not even counting how the actual fucking wind slows down my internet, due to the copper wiring being on poles like electricity. And I live in a place with so many windmills due to the natural features of the land creating daily wind storms from 4 PM until 7 AM.

      I really do appropriate the advice however!

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      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Your situation is really unique. Yeah, you’re probably better off with a VPN and torrenting directly. Which VPN do you have in mind?

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