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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Are you saturating the upload link when that's happening?

      You probably need shaping of some sort. Just enabling codelq may be sufficient. For example:
      https://forum.netgate.com/post/807630

      Steve

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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        500/10 wow... Can you even hit 500 with only 10 up? Just the acks alone would suck up quite a bit of that pipe..

        Torrents would kill that with such a limited upload if not highly contained..

        I have 500/50 - I don't torrent from this connection. I torrent on a seedbox, and then just download to my PC from... This is going to be a better solution all the way around if you ask me with such a limited upload. And now you don't have to worry about your isp and any sort of "stuff" you might be downloading via torrents ;)

        Just my opinion..

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          As-21
          last edited by

          Nope upload is not even hitting 30kb.
          Like i said on DD WRT this is not happening.
          And yes i know 500/10 sucks but the best i have here i wish it had more upload for running VPN etc.

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          • GertjanG
            Gertjan @As-21
            last edited by

            @As-21 said in Downloading torrents killing internet:

            What could be the problem ?

            Visit http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest and check.

            No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
            Edit : and where are the logs ??

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              As-21 @Gertjan
              last edited by

              @Gertjan
              Did the test BufferBloat is B.
              Quality is A.
              Getting 470 dpwnload 9.8 upload.

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              • GertjanG
                Gertjan
                last edited by

                While running the torrent plaque ?

                No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                  As-21 @Gertjan
                  last edited by As-21

                  @Gertjan
                  Nope i just ran again while downloading torrents go this message:
                  "Failed to get servers available. Something may be blocking requests error:23
                  The browser failed to fetch the list of available servers. Either your connection went offline or there is a proxy or other browser extension blocking the test. If this error occurs after a successful test then there is probably a temporary resource exhaustion in the browser, OS or router."

                  when i was able to run it 11 connections failed and 6 successful.

                  Ill try the codelq and report result with it.

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                    As-21
                    last edited by

                    I think doing a codelq scheduler and 520Mb in Traffic Shaper on the WAN improved a lot although not perfect but much better while downloading.
                    Buffer bloat was A with codelq.

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                    • GertjanG
                      Gertjan
                      last edited by

                      Do several tests with an "up queue" (limited at 10Mbit ?) - start using values like

                      d7476166-8148-455d-a044-2ca3fa987e3f-image.png

                      and also a little bit above and beneath.

                      No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                      Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                        As-21 @Gertjan
                        last edited by As-21

                        @Gertjan
                        i did 9500 on the upload and now its working with much smaller delay.
                        Buffer bloat is now A++ while downloading torrents.

                        I used this youtube video to set it up.
                        Youtube Video

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Nice. Did it help with connectivity whilst torrenting?

                          Steve

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                            As-21 @stephenw10
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                            @stephenw10
                            yes it helped thanks for tip.
                            I started learning now about traffic shaping to see if i can do more to improve
                            performance and just to learn about it for fun :)

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