Torrenting Problem on Spectra

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Hello all,
I got a spectra broadband connection in delhi a few days ago. Everything is going good, the speeds are as expected. The only things that bothers me is that I get full speeds on downloading some torrents and some torrents don't even start. There are enough seeders in both cases, so that's not an issue. Moreover when I tried downloading the same torrent through my mobile data, I got high speeds, so I know this is definitely an issue with spectra. What I don't understand is why is this happening only with some torrents and not all. May be someone more experienced and knowledgeable than me in this topic can explain. Has this happened to anyone else using spectra?
@varkey
 
Tried using VPN when downloading torrents and sure enough they start downloading again. Is there any way to do it without using vpn?
 
Which torrent client are you using? I think most likely explanation is that Spectra is throttling torrent traffic considering the same torrent downloads fine with VPN

It could also be because on some torrents the data is being pulled from Spectra's local network

Can you show the peer list of the torrent you are downloading on Spectra with and without VPN ? (With last three digits blurred out)
 
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When you are off the VPN (or, directly on spectra) check the Trackers if they are being announced to / connected to, sometimes the trackers are blocked by the ISP which causes issues too.

If using qBitorrent, you can go to settings and enable the option to announce to all trackers. This usually helps a lot as torrents have multiple trackers and one or the other should work.
 

@arjitc From what I've seen, there's no issue in connecting to trackers. The peers are identified and it establishes the connection to the peers as well. The speed throttling is there even with private trackers for example.
 
varkey said:
@arjitc From what I've seen, there's no issue in connecting to trackers. The peers are identified and it establishes the connection to the peers as well. The speed throttling is there even with private trackers for example.
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Yup pretry much confirm this though for me in most cases private trackers have usually been fine atleast for downloads either way i just run VPN on my Linux machine 24*7 these days
 
I have been using spectra for two months and I get specified 50mbps on direct downloads like steam, Google services, link-removed, link-removed, etc but when downloading via torrent this ISP is just terrible.

Unless torrent is really new and has many Indian seeders I don't get even 500KB/s with it.
For example almost every 1080p bluray upload of movies and TV show struggles.
Just a week old torrent of Philadelphia is struggling to get even 200kb/s.

If I try downloading those same torrents with my airtel 4g then they all start downloading at over 3MB/s.

Any idea if it can be solved or what the issue is?
 
I've tried these before but it doesn't work I'm using VPN it's pretty good but since the VPN i use allows me to forward only one port I'm thinking of finally using zerotier on my Linux machine
Torrents used to be fine when I got the connection at first it was limited sometime but not to this rate it's very slow now
 
okay had some time to mess around with this though I haven't yet delved deeply into it here's what I found.


I tried to download a few Linux distros.
Code: 
  *download speeds were above 500 mbps 
  *There were no local caching peers connected 
  * out of 55MBPS speeds download the 2 peers were giving me most of the speed while the rest of them combined weren't even providing me 3 MBPS


then tried downloading few random and top-seeded + latest torrent from public trackers
Code: 
  *download speeds depends on number of seeds as expected but 
  *there was a local peer connected with multiple clients (so there probably is some torrent caching peer with some rss feed or something since its always the same peer for most top-seeded latest torrent) 
  *client has no issues connecting to trackers (if you have it try to re-add the torrent to your client )
  *on torrents that aren't cached in local peer there is a huge speed difference I tried to verify this by adding the same torrent to my server and while it connected to the peers and finished downloading the torrent within few seconds the max speed I could get was 1.3 MBPS


Torrents from private trackers
Code: 
  *download speeds were usually great depending on seeds ofcourse
  *No local peers (again its private trackers so ofcourse not)
  *Tried few private trackers no problem connecting to trackers
  *even with just 30 peers on a new torrent the downloads speeds were upwards of 55MBPS
  *Upload speed is slow here so maintaining ratio would be a real problem with a new torrent with 1 seeder and 50+ leechers  upload speeds were 1MBPS at max


so even after all this I'm not exactly sure how or where spectra is throttling their speeds but one thing though spectras peeing is very bad had many issues so this could just be related to that I have few gigabit and 10 gig servers and was getting like 30 mbps for them but now I get proper speeds on those particular ones after I gave those ip's to spectras engineer

would love to see others tinkering with this also let me know if you want me to try something else or add more details I will do them when I'm free
 
Can anyone confirm this? They are using highly advance throttling mechanism. If i download linux distro there is not throttling but for other files they are being slowed down.

ps:admin can you please allow em to respond on the spectra torrent throttling thread. I am not being allowed.
 

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