Use deluge scheduler to seed when you're asleep and you don't need bandwidth!

dontblink@feddit.it to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 15 points –

Deluge has this nice plugin called scheduler that let's you program at which time the torrents should download/seed, if you have a small homeserver on something such as a raspberry pi you can just schedule deluge to work when you're asleep, this way you can seed/download while not impacting your bandwidth when you need it, very useful to really slow connections (like mine).

This way you can keep seeding for months without even noticing!

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I use my bittorrent client's time-based bandwidth setting. I just limit it to 10kb/sec when I'm awake, and unthrottle it overnight. That way my ISP doesn't get shirty about me gobbling up bandwidth at peak times either. :)

I've been maxing out my upload (only 30 mbit...) and my ISP hasn't complained at all.

I guess it varies between ISPs but mine has written to me a couple of times in the past to give me "gentle reminders" not to download "vast quantities of data" during peak hours. :P