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No VPN needed on private tracker sites?
#21
(Dec 02, 2015, 00:57 am)AncientRome Wrote: Sometimes torrent clients report false speeds. There is also cached data as well that could be included in that figure.

My client occasionally says I'm downloading 7 MB/s even though I had set my download cap to 3 MB/s and my Ethernet monitor reports I'm doing 3.

There is also overhead that further throttles speeds.
I noticed that when I uploaded at max speed, my download speed would suffer. Capping things isn't always a bad idea for residential users.

interesting. i'm still up for that invite, please. Smile
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#22
Private trackers are actually more interesting to anti piracy firms as the users are less = easier to track, they upload more to keep up ratio = easier to prove they uploaded, more likely to think they are protected by being on a "private" tracker = no vpn or other pesky obfuscations on the connection making it easier to identify the "uploader"
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(Dec 02, 2015, 02:32 am)Milliways Wrote: Private trackers are actually more interesting to anti piracy firms as the users are less = easier to track, they upload more to keep up ratio = easier to prove they uploaded, more likely to think they are protected by being on a "private" tracker = no vpn or other pesky obfuscations on the connection making it easier to identify the "uploader"

makes sense. i'll stick to using my vpn.
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(Dec 02, 2015, 00:57 am)AncientRome Wrote: Sometimes torrent clients report false speeds. There is also cached data as well that could be included in that figure.

My client occasionally says I'm downloading 7 MB/s even though I had set my download cap to 3 MB/s and my Ethernet monitor reports I'm doing 3.

There is also overhead that further throttles speeds.
I noticed that when I uploaded at max speed, my download speed would suffer. Capping things isn't always a bad idea for residential users.

So at the moment with deluge i'm downloading at 6 MB/s. I checked my wifi and ethernet monitors and they both confirmed that speed as well. So i'm positive that i'm actually downloading at 6 MB/s.

In 10 years of downloading torrents, i've never reached 6 MB/s with utorrent.

So there must be something to that.
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