Recommended Qbittorrent settings on Gigaclear / [Nord]Vpn

ginjaninja

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Does anyone have some recommended settings to use on Gigaclear FTTP.
I am finding i can get 40MB/s on a socks 5 proxy outside a vpn [on a virtual machine]
But only 1MB/s inside a vpn without a proxy, (vs 8MB/s on same with FTTC)
It seems Gigaclear dont want to make it easy to use their bandwidth.
Thanks
 
So much to unpack here - VM (which hypervisor?), proxy, VPN... It's a recipe for a mess. Run it natively if possible. When you say 'NordVPN', are you running WireGuard ('NordLynx'), OpenVPN or something else? What's the host OS? Do you have 'Anonymous mode' enabled in qBT? Assuming you're running the latest version of qBT, which libtorrent version did you go for; v2 or v1? If you're running v2, try v1 as some report speed issues with v2 (I didn't see any, but ymmv).

First, disable uTP and use TCP only. Disable rate limit for everything (including uTP and LAN). If inside a VM (and/or on a lower power machine), tweak down connections per torrent to 20-50. Select to always add the following trackers to new torrents:

Code: 
udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce
udp://tracker.torrent.eu.org:451/announce

Now restart qBT and try an Ubuntu torrent (they're well seeded and a good speed test). Nord isn't very good for torrents, and running behind a proxy will kill your ability to connect to a lot of UDP trackers. I can basically saturate gigabit with the above settings, but I don't use Nord.
 
thanks for suggestions
will try docker later.
im on qbt 4.3.9 64bit with libtorrent 1.2.14
yes anonymous
nordlynx

with vpn no socks proxy 5MB/s
with vpn + with socks proxy 5MB/s
(think the vpn might be the limit)
without vpn + with socks proxy more like 30 MB/s
without vpn + without proxy - use upnp port forwarding 40 MB/s
(anecdotally more connections as suggested)

need to try without virtual machine to see if thats a limiting factor.

whats a good vpn for torrenting?
 
You still didn't say which OS and hypervisor (VM software) you're using, or the network setup (bridge, NAT, direct etc). Unless you're running something like KVM, Proxmox, ESXi or whatever you're highly likely to be hitting limits in the VM network stack or finding yourself CPU bound. Nord isn't great for torrents as I said (eg no forwarding), but they will give you more than 5MB/sec easily if the setup is right. Try running natively as a test (i.e.. bare metal). I'm not sure if Nord's client uses in-kernel WireGuard or userspace, but I suspect the latter. Try a month on Mullvad, forward a port and see how you go. Connect to one of their 'owned' (rather than rented) 10Gb servers in London - I saturate gigabit with them no issues.
 
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