Recommendations for torrenting with linux?
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Asus WRT Routers are great however, it doesn’t support certain Registrars for DDNS like Cloudflare so I had to install Merlin Firmware, ssh into the router and then manually configure a cron-job so that my A records stay up to date with my WAN.
https://github.com/clayauld/asus-merlin-cloudflare-ddns
Thankfully somebody already been down this path a posted the documentation which made things 100x easier.
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My ISP uses CG-WAN so in order for me to remote into it, I had to set up Tailscale, the OS isn't perfect but is way better than any consumer grade router in the market. I also use a custom firmware, a forked version of OpenWRT that works with routers with modems.
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Yeah, I just wish there was a way to automatically update the port whenever it changes. It doesn’t change often since my server tends to stay on 24/7. But when it does change, it would be nice to have it automatically update.
Back before my current server, I was just messing around with it in Windows. I discovered that qBit actually stores the forwarded port in the registry, and PIA has a terminal command that can print the currently forwarded port. I tried to write a quick .bat script to automatically run when the PIA network adapter connected. The goal was to grab the port number and update the registry for qBit any time the internet went out or my server was rebooted.
And it seemed to work fine. It launched when PIA connected, and pushed the new value to the registry. But that forwarded port was also apparently being stored somewhere else as well, because just updating the registry wasn’t enough; When qBit launched it still showed the old port number, even though all of the documentation I found said it was simply a registry value. At that point I just gave up and manually updated it every time I turned my computer on.
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Just out of curiosity, why bother running 4 instances of qBit for the various *arrs? Why not just use automatic torrent management, and have the different categories download to different folders? My *arrs are all using a single instance of qBit, and each service simply uses a different category with a different download path.
The benefit is that I can see my total up/down speeds, ratios, etc very easily without needing to change to an entirely different instance.
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Ah, dang, I haven't run into this yet. But I see what you mean. I actually just set this up in Linux, but back in Windows I didn't run into this problem (maybe I was lucky enough to hit the same port, or maybe I didn't have it set up entirely correctly, lol).
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Anybody got a nix config for binding qbittorrent to mullvad easily?
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This post shouldn't have been removed. There's literally an active censorship campaign against free VPNs.
Here is what it said:
If you want a free VPN, you can try Riseup: https://riseup.net/en/vpn
There's qbittorrent for torrenting.
The comment was removed because OP didn't ask for a VPN recommendation. So we're not allowed to recommend VPNs unless someone asks for it?
This is becoming VERY suspicious!
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Hey mods! How come you don't remove this post because "OP didn't ask for a VPN recommendation"?
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Sorry, OP didn't ask for a VPN recommendation. Your post should be removed to ensure consistency among moderation.
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OP didn't ask for a VPN recommendation. Your post should be deleted like mine was because you recommended a VPN without OP asking for it.
The mods are actively trying to censor information about free VPNs. There is no evidence to support their argument that RiseUp's VPN service "is not meant for torrenting." It's complete bullshit and it needs to stop now.
I don't know much about them, and I doubt many of you do either. Here's a quote from their "about us" that I guarantee the mods did not read:
"We do this by providing communication and computer resources to allies engaged in struggles against capitalism and other forms of oppression."
Source: https://riseup.net/about-us
Where are the lying mods getting this information that torrenting is a misuse of Riseup's VPN? They must provide evidence to support this, or else there's no getting around the fact that they are spreading misinformation.
This is very suspicious and makes me want to get the message out even more!
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I use BiglyBt on Debian. I use BiglyBt because I previously used Vuze, and I used Vuze because I previously used Azureus. I don't really remember why I went with Azureus originally, but it may have just been because it was popular at that time.
I get the impression most people use other bittorrent clients nowadays, but BiglyBt does what I need it to do.
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Never experienced this.
When I had memory leaks with software, the fault was usually old OS.
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There are 2 methods:
First method is to open preferences in qbit, under Advanced > Network interface, select "wg0-mullvad" from the drop-down menu. The interface might be named something different for you, but it should stand out as pretty obvious which one to select.
Other method is in qbit > Preferences > Connection, under "Proxy Server" select "SOCKS5" from the drop-down, input 10.64.0.1 as the host and 1080 as the port.
You could even do both these options at the same time if you like, there is absolutely no downside. It's like wearing 2 condoms except it feels the same as wearing nothing at all.
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It works ? I mean what necessary functionality is it missing ? Magnet link goes in, files come out, happy face.
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I use qBitorrent with no VPN because my ISP don't give a fuck of what I'm doing with their data
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Ah, so, I should've been more clear, I have annoying requirements, I want qbittorrent to run through mullvad exclusively, and i want them to be intertwined and startup with eachother automatically. I don't want any of my other apps to be running in mullvad, is there a good way to do that? I think the socks5 proxy requires me to have it open and running, and thus everything would run through it, but maybe that wireguard method works around that? not sure, just wondering
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Just out of curiosity, why bother running 4 instances of qBit for the various *arrs? Why not just use automatic torrent management, and have the different categories download to different folders? My *arrs are all using a single instance of qBit, and each service simply uses a different category with a different download path.
I started to become frustrated with the queue on a single qbit instance, I would set the max total of active torrents to 15; 10 active downloads and 5 seeding and it starts out fine but eventually those 10 active downloads all became stalled.
The amount of times I have had to open qbit to just move it down the queue so other things could download was obnoxious so I made 3 other instances for each *arr and it’s felt easier to manage.
Proton VPN claims to offer Port-Forwarding for their Wireguard router configs however, when I attempt to do it they don’t display the active port anywhere on their website.
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I didn't mention a VPN service. Openvpn is a client/server application, not a service. Vopono is an application that let's you tunnel a single application through a VPN.
I also don't disagree with the mod's reasoning, so... have a nice day I guess.
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I torrent a lot on Linux and use Qbittorrent. Surfshark has a great VPN on Linux.
If you want to get into it then Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and nzb360 ($10) with Jellyfin is a great stack to manage your library but needs a bit of work to set up. You can then use the phone to download and search and watch it with an android TV app.
I had some issues setting it up with a ublue fedora immutable distro which are pretty non-existent on most standard distros.
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Why do you agree with their censorship and lying?
