Over the past week, I have uploaded over 500 Gigs in total, most of the torrents being only 10-20 Gb big

And those torrents are to this day using the full speed of my internet (that being merely 20 Mbits

So its not really about the speed, but those torrents are not that popular to use my full speed for over a week, therefore I figure there must be a leech (or a lot) wasting my UL from people really trying to get the files

So, how do it block that? I am using download station from my Synology Nas, because I have no way of running qbittorrent-nox

  • Luffy@lemmy.mlOP
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    12 days ago

    I dont mean the normal leechers

    My theory is that someone set up a fuckload of download only clients that just save to /etc/null in order to dump the speeds

    Thats why im trying to ask if there are any documented Cases of such torrentbotting and if one can do anything about it, like for example blocking specific trackers that mostly Container bots

    • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.eeEnglish
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      12 days ago

      My theory is that someone set up a fuckload of download only clients that just save to /etc/null in order to dump the speeds

      In order to dump the speeds? What kind of benefit would they get from that? Do you think people are slowing your downloads by doing this or what?

      Thats why im trying to ask if there are any documented Cases of such torrentbotting and if one can do anything about it, like for example blocking specific trackers that mostly Container bots

      No thats not a thing, if someone did manage to do some sort of botnet of leechers you wouldnt be able to block all the bots anyway.

      You should probably move to using private trackers instead of public ones if you want to avoid leechers.