I was feeling real groovy about my fresh new ultra.cc VPS, but it’s slow as fuck! sub 50 kbps upload. I’ll never untank my ratio at this rate!

Is this normal? Any suggestions for another provider? At this rate I wonder if I’d be better off just switching from mullvad to a VPN that supports port forwarding. Any thoughts on privateVPN?

Edit: so the FTP speed is much, much faster than I’m getting on my torrent client. Either i don’t have something configured right, or i need to be more strategic about what i seed. If anyone can help me trouble shoot, id greatly appreciate it

  • rambos@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    If you are testing upload speed better try with public torrent since it is much harder to seed on private trackers.

    I dont use seedbox, but kinda happy with airvpn

  • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Haven’t heard of private, but I would highly recommend airvpn. You could do qbittorrent nox on an old computer for good seeding. If you want I could elaborate on how, but I can’t right now.

    I wrote what’s before this before looking at private. It looks okay but they definitely make some false claims in their marketing that make me skeptical. They say their VPN can make connection faster than non-VPN, that is only true if being throttled or smthn weird. They say it hides your IP from your ISP, which is impossible. Your ISP loans you an IP, of course they know it. I know they mean it allows you to use an IP that your ISP doesn’t know, but they still said it wrong so… idk im rambling and tired but… yeah. Response.

    • ye_olde_noob@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Thanks a lot. I edited my post, but i don’t think the issue is as clear cut as just the server being slow due an overcrowded network like i thought at first. I just downloaded several gigs from it in under 15 minutes. Im just not seeing those speeds in my seeds. Maybe i have to pick better torrents to seed.

      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I don’t run a cloud-based seedbox, but I have a gigabit uplink on my server at home and often have very low seed speeds of <500KiBs (with plenty of usable overhead). I do see it spiking to ~18 MiBs sometimes but most of my torrents are just sitting there without actually seeding, so i suspect it’s mostly the torrents I have seeding that’s the “issue” for me.

  • spaceaape@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Ive used Ultra cc for maybe 7-8 months straight now and have a ratio of 40on my private tracker. 7+tb upload with the ultra service alone. Got a little over 100 seeding 24/7I was strategic in the beginning, only going for popular freeleech stuff. Packs are very popular. Ive seeded a ton of a cartoon pack I got for nostalgia, and it wasnt even a fresh upload when i grabbed it.

    Edit, also im not using a vpn, for anything. Ultra cc’s service can be used as a vpn tunnel. But since my host is in the Netherlands racks it doesn’t need a vpn for public trackers, and i dont need a vpn to stream from the seedbox.

    • ye_olde_noob@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      yea, once i figured out the freeleech thing, i was off to the races. my ratio has nearly 10x’d what it was since I made this post

  • junusdenised420@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I have been using ultra for over a year now and dont have the issue you are talking about. How many seeds/peers do the torrents have? Might just be that there arent a lot of people dling what you are seeding