The original post: /r/torrents by /u/MotivatedKing on 2024-08-23 19:09:06.

Edit: I'm stupid

You guys probably get the question a lot, so hopefully you can help me.

I am using qBittorrent to download 10-20 torrents at a time.

It would seem that the download speed for all combined torrents in capped at 60mbps and hovers just above 52mbps.

I have a 500mbps optic fiber from my isp and regularly clock 350-550 on speed tests.

I thought that it might be the drive write speed since I was writing all to a single drive. So I added two trending movies with high seed counts into the mix and downloaded them to another drive on the same machine. (I have a linux server with 6 6TB HDD and use qbittorrent on my pc machine via local network)

These two torrents started in the low kbps' and it wasn't until I paused all other torrents downloading on to the first drive that it spiked up to 8-10mbps per torrent.

I subscribe to a local isp and have spoken to a senior person there who claims not to throttle at all. I am not very close with him but close enough to take him at his word.

What gives?