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No cap fam lit 💯 or whatever

I typically cap only to try to avoid any unnecessary heat from the man at my ISP. Keep a low profile is my mantra.

I use a crappy wifi card so I dont need software to cap the speed

Seeding isn't capped because I have 100/100 and who the fuck needs 100 up all the time?

Downloading is capped during normal day use to 70% of my network because I love my wife and want her to have Internet

Capped - gotta keep the connection usable and in my eyes availability > speed.

Very few things I need "right now" so I can be patient as not being able to find something can be much more frustrating.

Saying that, if you need to switch off, do so. If they really want it, they'll leave it queued and it's not on you to act as the entire distribution source (unless it's your distro!)

I have a 500/500 fiber connection, so generally a torrent download is the only thing that can actually make use of the entire capacity. So, I usually cap download speeds at 350Mbps as to not choke out the rest of my devices, but I leave upload uncapped because it never reaches high enough to have a noticable effect.

Yes. I cap upload and download, so the rest of my network runs smoothly. I then seed forever, so if anyone wants it, they can have it if they’re patient.

I cap my bandwidth at 50% of my max upload and download speed during the day and 80% of max during night when I'm usually asleep using qBittorrent's schedule feature.

I seed without cap, don't really need my upload for anything else. (500 Mbps)

What's the distro? I can help seed it indefinitely with open ports.

I don't torrent much, but my NZB and torrent clients both get throttled on a schedule. I have no need for my automations to go fast or fill up my NAS overnight (slight hyperbole but I do often get 50MB/sec on well-hosted downloads, which is not sustainable in terms of storage cost.)

I pause during the day for work, low throttle (500KB/s) during non-work hours in morning and evening, and at night once we're asleep a moderate cap (5MB/sec. ) I also have some mild traffic shaping QoS on the router so the kids streaming won't affect my Zoom meetings, for example.

Things added manually go straight to the top of the queue, and sometimes I'll un-throttle for a particular download that I'm waiting for.

Send me magnet for the torrent, for poorly available stuff I set a 10:1 seed ratio, so I'll be seeding it for a while. I don't cap my upload speed, but it isn't great

I have no caps for my normal speed mode in qbittorrent but in alternative speed mode I have it capped to 500 KB/s. I have it set to switch automatically to alt speed mode around the time my spouse gets home from work. If I leave it uncapped, it slows the Internet on their end because of bandwidth presumably.

I don't. I have 1GB/1GB so there is not really a need to.

I have my qbittorrent containters capped to seed about 20 - 30 GiB per day, 300KiB/s on each container. I'm seeding about 1400 torrents but since we have "unlimited" data allowances that aren't actually unlimited I have to cap it. It sucks seeing some torrents seeding at 20KiB/s but at least they'll eventually get it fully downloaded I suppose.

I also set anything over a 5 ratio to superseed mode so more popular torrents don't hog too much bandwidth

I have it capped because I'm sharing the bandwidth with three other people, like you I suppose.

Uncapped. I have gigabit fiber internet and no reason to cap. I have some where I have a 50:1 ratio.

I do cap speeds in my transmission server since I mostly use it for large size torrents and forget to pause until I open the web interface again. Once I ended up seeding 30x.

When I downloaded at home, I would cap my speeds or my internet would be unusable for anything else. Now I use a seedbox and it's only limited by the hard drive speed.

if it's Slackware based dna Linux, GIB

I only have 60 down and 12 up so I cap about 80% of the time with a short uncapped window late at night.

Only when others at my house are using the internet otherwise its full bandwidth

I don't tend to torrent much, but when I do, no. My network speed is so slow already that capping it any further still wouldn't leave me with usable bandwidth on download. Upload I also don't cap because I am behind CG-NAT which makes any upload quite rare.

When I say slow, I mean slow. During peak load times my download speed may dip as low as 0.1Mbps. Upload usually stays around 2-4Mbps, so that's fine. Thankfully that's rare. Usually I can get 1-2Mbps even during the day.

I have my seeding capped at 1.0 ratio because I have torrent on my home server which I use also for other things like matrix and it works like shit when it's seeding a lot. I already figured out a solution but I need money for that, so for the time being it has to be like this.

I have 250/50. I have noticed stuttering of streaming video if I am also downloading heavily so I cap during prime time but otherwise let er rip.

I'm very lucky to have 30€ 1Gb/~0.7Gb and the option to hop on the new freebox with symmetrical 8Gb for 40€/month. So today if I need to cap I'd just use my old 100Mb switch for my server I guess.

Not that I need it today (like at all), but I could host art videos (for example) or help out maybe. Thinking about it I should probably help and then bump up when needed...

What do you do with your big uploads, hey guys 😊 (jk ofc)?

I'm still working on my sharing protocol so as soon as I have time l'll make a big node for it to try to jumpstart FOSS websites, I probably do the jump then.

Cheers and long live the free internet 💖

I used to, because I had a buggy TP-Link modem/router, & adding a cap was the only way that port forwarding would magically start to work. I have no idea why. The bug never got fixed.

when i wanted bandwidth available 'elsewhere' (such as streaming or games on a different pc) but wanted to continue long transfers, used to neuter the lan adapter configuration on the system doing the transfers by setting it to 10baseT, full or half duplex for 10 or 5mbit max. that was back when my isp connection topped out at < 15mbit. i didn't always use a program or an addon that had rate limiting, and that was my 'solution'.

Yes, because I've already uploaded 20 terabytes of this 2 terabyte collection and it still only has 6 seeders. If y'all fuckers won't pull your weight, neither will I.