deluge is killing my bandwidth

[markp1989]

Im with virgin media, 10bm line (whent its not throttled) .


If im downloading a few torrents, even if i limit my download to 50kbs and my upload to 30kbs, torrenting seems to make my network go so slow.

Is there any way i can get this so i can download at a decent speed without it making the complate network slow?

Thanks Markp1989

[loki]

I've heard you can setup a QoS to set torrent traffic as low priority if you have a router that has the capabilities, I've never done this myself... it is probably the most elegant option, I believe the other option would be to test your actual upload speed capability and set it so it's 80-90% of that maximum value. Generally, setting just the upload limit will keep the internet running smooth enough for surfing while downloading/uploading torrents.

Are you saying that there's certain times when your line is throttled and other times when it's not? That setup would probably require a scheduler, I believe current Deluge doesn't offer this feature...

[andar]

You could try turning off DHT.

[markp1989]

hey thanks for the replies, i have sorted it out, using cron.

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## m h  dom mon dow   command
0 10 * * * /usr/bin/deluge -u console -a "config -s max_download_speed 145.0"
0 15 * * * /usr/bin/deluge -u console -a "config -s max_download_speed 900.0"
0 16 * * * /usr/bin/deluge -u console -a "config -s max_download_speed 145.0"
0 21 * * * /usr/bin/deluge -u console -a "config -s max_download_speed 900.0"

10am-3pm and 4pm-9pm are considered peak, and if i download more then 3gb in those time slots then the internet gets slowed down to 2mbs for 5 hours, so if my calculations are right, (2.5 gigabytes) / (5 hours) = 145.635556 kBps limits how much i can download in the 5hour window, to avoid throttling.


here is my speed test, the limiting factor of my connection is that the upload speed sucks. i have set deluge a limit of 45kbs upload, and everything seems to be downloading nicely, idealy i would like to be able to upload more, but im leaving any torrents i use seeding for a bit after i finish downloading. i normaly give about 0.5share ratio.