Does torrenting slow down your computer? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm curious to know if anybody else finds their computer behaving sluggishly or erratically when downloading torrents.

For the record: I use transmission on a 2020 imac and have tried other clients to little avial. A virus and/or activity check doesn't reveal anything untoward going on in the background.

I'm not sure what's going on, but torrenting is either resource intensive (possibly RAM) or writing to the harddrive results in poor performance overall. Or maybe its something else (like my vpn draining resources)? Either way, when I torrent I might as well walk away from my computer because that's all it seems it wants to do, and even then its performance remains erratic.

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[-] Riven@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Bittorrent opens a ton of simultaneous connections that can overwhelm the pos router supplied by some ISPs. If that’s your issue, lowering the max # of connections could not only clear it up but also increase your download speed

[-] eggdaddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

This was my fix also. Switched to my own router and no problems since then. Should really have bought one sooner honestly.

[-] IDeserveToBeLoved@szmer.info 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately it's not always an option. Switched to fiber and speeds are great but I have to severly limit the amount of connections and active torrents because the POS modem ddoses itself with too many packets and ISP does not allow switching for your own hardware.