Got qBittorrent?

[Night457]

A few months ago I returned to using qBittorrent after an absence of some years. It had been working well for me ever since this new install, until this past week when suddenly the download speeds dropped to mere single-digit kbps when I had been used to mbps. This included torrents from different sites and those that had dozens of seeders. YTS torrents that would usually download in 10 minutes were taking days. I had not changed any of my qBittorrent preferences, nor any for Windows. I made sure qBittorrent was updated. Googling, I see Reddit posts on the topic from months or years ago but not anything recent. Could this be BECAUSE of a recent qBittorrent update that broke it?

I thought maybe it was my VPN or my ISP even though I had not changed those settings either, but with experimenting I found all my other uploading and downloading still had the same speeds: eMule, Jdownloader2, MEGA, yt-dlp etc. I wondered if there was something about TORRENTS in general that was the problem? My ISP maybe decided it did not like them? So I installed uTorrent and tried that instead. Suddenly I was back to MBPS speeds, with hundreds of KBPS the minimum.

SOOOOOO ... has anyone had this experience with qBittorrent, or any other torrent client? Any idea what causes it? This probably explains why I quit using qBittorrent years ago. Typically if one brand of software stops working right for me, I switch to another rather than spend endless hours trying to analyze the software. But I really *DO* like qBittorrent, when it works right! So if anyone already knows what causes this sort of snail pace, oh please share your wisdom!

Thanks for any ideas.

[szijjarto]

I'm using qBittorrent all the time, had no problem at all.

[ghost]

I'm using qBittorrent all the time, had no problem at all.

Same on my side.

[Night457]

Grrrr. Recently I started using a private torrent site, and I try to share files as long as I can -- depending on my hard drive space. I found out pretty quickly that an hour after a movie is posted everyone who wants it already has it completely downloaded, and I am the LAST one to get it, with no one else to upload anything to. After a week of holding on to 12Gb and 25Gb files with NOTHING uploaded, I delete them because my drive is full and I need room for eMule. I figure the private site seeds their torrents with a virus that is activated if you stop sharing too soon, and then it sabotages download speeds for ALL torrents, not just the private ones.

Me, paranoid?

[ghost]

I don't use torrents often and never got deeper in this torrent thing. So I think I can't help you much.

[Night457]

... "this torrent thing" ... That cracks me up! But with your longtime use of eMule AND Usenet, torrents are pretty much redundant I would guess.

Just tell me, "There, there. You are absolutely right to be paradoid, but it will be alright."

[ghost]

There, there. You are absolutely right to be paradoid, but it will be alright!

I only download torrents, when I can't find the file/movie elsewhere. Mostly I download from pay hosters using a debrid account.

[Night457]

Wow, I am obviously very upset if I can't even type! "paradoid", WTF did I mean by that? Paranoia with a bad cold?

[Rhisis66]

i only trust on Transmission Qt, whit more than 2 seds go quite fast Which happens rarely

[pillowbaker]

Hey Night, I sometimes go through bouts of bad speeds, though mostly from emule. Bittorrent is hungry as ever and is normally always willing to max out my speeds. We use the same torrent client, but I have a few suggestions.

What I've found about bittorrent is that certain older client versions are generally preferred over newer updated version. So bittorrent, for me, is not like SubtitleEdit or JD2. May I recommend installing qbit 4.3.9.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/qbitto ... ent-4.3.9/

Sometimes, I suspect my ISP may notice my upload traffic and auto-throttle, but I cannot be sure. Usually resetting the internet and swapping around my ports helps, but that might be my imagination. Try a random port in the 50000 to 60000 range. I have also had little luck trying to upload or download with a VPN, though I never had a VPN that allowed port forwarding. If you like, I can screenshot my settings in the client.

In particular, I have the "Use UPnP/NAT-pmp forwarding from my router" clicked ON. Check your firewall exceptions to make sure qbit is free to access "private" and "public".

And if you're getting low speeds from a site that you aren't getting much traffic from anyways, perhaps try testing a few torrents from public trackers that always have loads of leechers. I can send you a few btdig suggestions if you like.