Help Needed: Drastic Speed Drop When Seeding to Multiple Peers on Local Network

[jupiter]

Hello everyone,

First of all, I would like to thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

I am a teacher at an educational institution where we have access to a local network. Since I will need to share large sets of files with my students, I thought using torrents would be a great solution for when I need to send something to the entire class (about 15 computers).

I am currently testing this by sharing the Windows 10 installer ISO that I just downloaded, but I am encountering a problem. The first computer that started downloading it did so at a great speed, but as more computers connected, I noticed that each of them started downloading very slowly. Even my own computer, which is the original seed, began sharing the file at a much slower rate.



I don’t understand what could have caused this sudden drop in speed. I tried closing and reopening qBittorrent, but the issue persists.

In the settings, I increased the maximum number of connections per torrent because I thought perhaps I was sharing with a few problematic computers, resulting in slow transfers. However, even after changing this setting, the problem remains.



I would appreciate any guidance or advice on how to solve this issue, as I would like to use this method effectively throughout the school year.

Thank you!

[jupiter]

Hi everyone,

I apologize for my insistence, but I would really appreciate any help you can offer.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. If anyone has an idea of what might be causing the issue or can point me in the right direction to find relevant information, it would be extremely helpful.

Thank you again, and sorry for the repeated request.

[Peter]

I had way more success by using Syncthing [ https://syncthing.net/ ].

It's free, open-source, works absolutely perfect.
I used it to spread files between 100 computers. The delay was like ... sub-10 seconds between changes. It's AMAZING.

And you can set up machines to "Send Only", "Receive Only", or both.
You can have basically p2p shared folders WITH versioning.
It is awesome.


(There is also a paid software called "Resilio" (formerly known as Bittorrent Sync by BitTorrent the company, but I tried it, and Syncthing does everything and more.)

[jupiter]

I had way more success by using Syncthing [ https://syncthing.net/ ].

It's free, open-source, works absolutely perfect.
I used it to spread files between 100 computers. The delay was like ... sub-10 seconds between changes. It's AMAZING.

And you can set up machines to "Send Only", "Receive Only", or both.
You can have basically p2p shared folders WITH versioning.
It is awesome.


(There is also a paid software called "Resilio" (formerly known as Bittorrent Sync by BitTorrent the company, but I tried it, and Syncthing does everything and more.)

Thank you so much for your reply! I will definitely give Syncthing a try very soon.

I’m sorry I won’t be able to use torrents for this, but if this solution works better, I’ll absolutely go with it.

Thanks again!

[Peter]

Torrents are worse for sharing between known peers or family or target computers because you cannot change the contents. It's just one fixed data that's being shared so to speak. You cannot make changes to it, or else you have to make a new torrent and start distributing that. At that point normal users already have a trouble of selecting the same set of files so not every file has to be re-downloaded.

Trust me, Syncthing is so much better for this purpose.