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Slow Torrents with Big Sur - Solved.
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Quick update;
Issues came back with Qbittorent 4.3, even though I made few changes in the settings and the settings worked for a few days. Then torrents started to stall, I would lose connection to seeds or I wouldn't connect to seeds.
Installed Transmission and the torrents are flying now.
Im reluctant to try QB again after using Transmission. QB has a lot of great settings, but Transmission has far less settings yet works so much better. I just don't like the tiny font/text in Transmission.
Issues came back with Qbittorent 4.3, even though I made few changes in the settings and the settings worked for a few days. Then torrents started to stall, I would lose connection to seeds or I wouldn't connect to seeds.
Installed Transmission and the torrents are flying now.
Im reluctant to try QB again after using Transmission. QB has a lot of great settings, but Transmission has far less settings yet works so much better. I just don't like the tiny font/text in Transmission.
4.3.1 hasnt fixed that bug! Still crawling torrents with Big Sur! With 4.1.9 they are flying 🚀
Thats for the best at the moment, unless you want to use Transmission!
I use Transmission and have no speed issues under Big Sur. Also, Transmission does have an option to stop the transfer at a user defined seeding ratio.
Any one else using blocking-lists for when Canonical is trying to spy on the number of times I download Ubuntu and the times Libre Office checks up on the amount of seeing I do? I could go on, but the question was if you people use emule-security blocklists with Transmission and/or qBittorrent?
I noticed I had some greyed-out SOCK5 Proxy Server details input on the Connections tab from an old VPN service I had. Even though I had Type set to (None), I wondered if this might still be implemented and be cause for the strange occurrences since Big Sur installation so I chose Type: SOCKS5 again, deleted the details, unchecked all the Proxy Server checkboxes, set Type back to (None), and pressed ok. IMMEDIATELY my torrents jumped to life.
It seems like the Big Sur issue isn't with Big Sur as much as it is with QBittorrent reading either old preferences or not reading them and using some pre-coded ones. Maybe this is why when we jiggle or modify some of the settings, it then gives its head a shake and smartens up.
Hoping this might help others… as going back to 4.1.9. (as has worked for others) did nothing for my speed and actually corrupted on of my shares. Live and learn.
It seems like the Big Sur issue isn't with Big Sur as much as it is with QBittorrent reading either old preferences or not reading them and using some pre-coded ones. Maybe this is why when we jiggle or modify some of the settings, it then gives its head a shake and smartens up.
Hoping this might help others… as going back to 4.1.9. (as has worked for others) did nothing for my speed and actually corrupted on of my shares. Live and learn.