
Some ISP’s sometimes don’t monitor or count what you download when the network is at its quietest, which is mainly overnight. Others might reduce your connection speed if you exceed a specified quota during peak hours. One of the common ways to restrict traffic is to throttle the entire connection or specifically reduce Peer2Peer traffic speed until a certain time when the network will be quieter. As long as our clients weren’t set to alternative rate limits, downloads were fast to process and finish on our side, with download speeds reaching several megabytes per second quickly (essentially as fast as our connection could handle).Although many Internet Service Providers offer a nearly or fully unlimited amount of traffic or bandwidth, many do not. QBittorrent is one of the most stable torrent clients we found when it came to downloading content. If it were 500 peers to 10 seeders, it would not be so healthy. For example, 100 peers to 50 seeders means a ratio of 2:1 Which is healthy. Ideally, most of the available peers would have 100% of a file and the ratio of peers to seeders would be healthy. Selecting peers is about choosing those that have a high seed to peer ratio. It helps widen the pool of available peers though so it helps to have it enabled.



Of course, if your firewall is blocking your downloads, you’ll need to add them to your whitelist. Different firewalls do things in different ways but you want to allow QBittorrent to send and receive traffic. If the port is not open, make sure you have allowed QBittorrent through your firewall and forward it in your router. Run the test again to see if the port is open.

