I want to turn off my PC but I’m the only seed for an unpopular linux distro. The downloader obviously has it capped at 1MB/s so it’s crawling slowly… just a couple minutes now…

I have my download at 10MB and upload at 5MB. I don’t want to hog all the bandwidth from my family and I don’t need it any faster anyway. I never see the upload reach the cap.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I typically cap only to try to avoid any unnecessary heat from the man at my ISP. Keep a low profile is my mantra.

    • Great Blue Heron@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      That used to be my approach, but since I got symmetric 1Gb/s fibre I’ve found that if I leave it uncapped anything I download completes in a few minutes and I don’t download anything popular so I don’t have to worry about uploading too much.