Is there a way to limit qBitTorrent only while Plex is streaming?

posted 1 year ago

jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works

piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I just want to toggle the alternative speeds while Plex is streaming outside my house. I couldn’t find anything while looking around except for some old scripts that haven’t been updated in years.

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ryannathans@aussie.zone

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1 year ago

Some private VPNs also support port forwarding so choosing to do so wouldn’t limit connections/peers

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toketin@feddit.it

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1 year ago

Hi, but even if you send torrent traffic through the vpn the wan connection at home would be affected too, if I’m right.

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ryannathans@aussie.zone

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1 year ago

You’d deprioritise the VPN traffic in QoS, or use cake

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toketin@feddit.it

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1 year ago

Ook thanks! That the same of making whole torrent’s traffic deprioritized on qos right?

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ryannathans@aussie.zone

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1 year ago

Bingo

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lud@lemm.ee

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1 year ago

Yes, but it will also affect all other potential traffic on that computer.

You could use split tunneling to only use the VPN for torrents and your normal network for everything else.

If you are torrenting on a dedicated server or something then it shouldn’t matter much.

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toketin@feddit.it

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1 year ago

Thanks, I guessed that you can identify, maybe with openwrt, the torrent traffic, in order to bind the qos rule to torrent.

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lud@lemm.ee

2 points

1 year ago

You could probably do that, unless you are using a VPN.

The router will only know that there is torrent VPN traffic but It would not know if it were torrenting or someone watching Netflix.

If you only use VPNs for torrenting then it’s not a problem, so you could just limit all VPN traffic. If you use VPNs for other stuff, it could get annoying having all your traffic limited.

You could use the two bandwidth limits in torrenting programs and switch between a low limit and a high limit when you want. It’s not automatic though .

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