I’ve been struggling to get ratios over even 1.0, most are stuck in the low 0.10 - 0.20 range. I don’t seed off my gaming PC 24/7 because I don’t want a VPN on all the time, plus I turn it off at night.

So mainly wondering if anyone has tips on a good setup to keep the PC seeding overnight, I’m running linux mint currently. I also have a RaspPi but I understand they are not great for torrents?

Is there any good way to compartmentalize a VPN? I.e., use the VPN for qBitTorrent only, and use my regular network adapter for other stuff (games, browsers, whatever).

I’ve tried a seedbox in the past and they’re neat, but I’d rather avoid a subscription and just use my hardware. I’m using Private Internet Access VPN until my already paid for time is up in case that’s significant.

    • SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I guess I could’ve made that part a DDG search :) Thank you for the reminder, it does sound like exactly what I wanted on a little more research.

    • SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Split tunnels sounds familiar and like what I want.

      I plan to switch to mullvad in the future, figure for low stakes stuff I can use up the rest of PIA for now. Thanks for the heads up though

      • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        3 months ago

        If you want to get in to private trackers at some point, Mullvad isn’t an option because they don’t support port forwarding. Just a PSA because Mullvad does monthly payments, so you’ll be able to switch anytime.

        Proton VPN and AirVPN do support port forwarding.

    • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I used to pay for PIA while it was still a Denver owned company, until it got bought out a few years back and stopped my subscription.

      Nord was the only other one I found to have commensurate features and possibly better than PIA