It's probably a stupid question... But if I notice I'm not getting much upload activity on my seeds, I'll often intentionally just hop over to a random country and see what happens. For example last night I noticed that my uploads had been limited to 1 or 2 <100kB/s peers for the last few days while connected to a US server. Clicked over to a Venezuelan server and almost immediately got about 20 connections that have been sitting between 5-10MB/s total upload ever since.

Makes me feel like an international Johnny Appleseed, except with media and stuff. 😎 Though it's a little surprising to me that there would be such a huge difference in seeding effectiveness depending on where your VPN's endpoint is. Whatever works I guess!

The only downside is it can make web browsing and shopping a bit of a pain. But that's my own fault for not taking 10 minutes to figure out how to set up split tunneling or just hosting qBittorrent on my media server...

EDIT: On rumba's advice I enabled port forwarding in my VPN and qBittorrent client, and now all is well.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you have a VPN client with port forwarding and have you configured the port?

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm using Proton's VPN client, which does have port forwarding, but it's not currently enabled. Could this be causing me issues?

Sounds like if I enable port forwarding, I just need to ensure qBittorrent's "listening port" is set to whatever active port the VPN client is using.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, if you're not using port forwarding with VPN you will get very poor speeds.

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well dammit, that was it. THANK YOU!

I feel pretty stupid for overlooking something so simple, but since qBittorrent never indicated any kind of connection error, I didn't even think to dig into such things.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

That's awesome! Glad I could be of assistance.

It's all tribal knowledge, not like they're are classes :)