Thinking of switching to Surf Fiber internet from the Comcast Xfinity Cable I currently have - any suggestions?
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How to block Stremio peers from qBittorrent?
You can't AFAIK.
Disable DHT
Don't do that, DHT is one of the baseline methods of public torrenting. You'll just end up cutting yourself off from tons of public torrent peers.
Unclear why you think DHT is strictly something specific to Stremio (?)
Use blocklists (I am also looking for suggestions, currently considering using this one)
That doesn't sound overly reliable, I'd guess if you want to go that route you probably want to install all their stuff including that peerbanhelper thing they are relying on. If you do all that feel free to report back to the community and let us know if it actually blocked Stremio clients for you.
Some things you could try:
- In qBittorrent you could try using a different Upload Choking Algorithm, it's not a real solution but it does help. (Tools / Options / Advanced / Upload Choking Algorithm) There you can try setting it to Anti-Leech or Round-Robin.
- Anti-Leech is an attempt to stop uploading to peers that seem to request data while trying to mask their activity (e.g. leeching clients), it's not perfect but can help. See https://www.libtorrent.org/reference-Settings.html#enum-seed-choking-algorithm-t and https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/4217 for more discussion.
- Round-Robin isn't blocking leeching, what it does is tell your torrent client to split the upload evenly between the requesting peers on a torrent. The result is that you will be uploading slower to a leeching client so those type of clients will prefer to get their upload from other faster peers rather than wait on yours.
- If you're desperate you could switch to an alternate torrent client, something like https://github.com/c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition it's not an official qBittorrent client but rather qBittorrent with some anti-leech additions. They mainly focus on chinese leeching clients so I'm not sure that would help at all with Stremio but you could try opening an issue if it looks like Stremio clients are still leeching off it, maybe the devs can figure something out https://github.com/c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition/issues
Me personally I don't worry about this stuff, for public torrents qBittorrent along with Round-Robin or Anti-Leech is enough. Otherwise just stick to private trackers where this sort of leeching is a non-issue.
PS - The more active piracy community is over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com you may want to subscribe there too.
Just did some quick testing, most are open trackers operating in I2P (meaning they will happily track and announce to any torrents/peers using them).
Working I2P Trackers, these should work with any I2P public torrents:
http://opentracker.bt.i2p/a
http://opentracker.dg2.i2p/a
http://opentracker.eeptorrent.i2p/a
http://opentracker.fattydove.i2p/a
http://opentracker.r4sas.i2p/a
http://opentracker.simp.i2p/a
http://w7tpbzncbcocrqtwwm3nezhnnsw4ozadvi2hmvzdhrqzfxfum7wa.b32.i2p/a
Working I2P non-open trackers, meaning they only track torrents published at their own website.
http://tracker2.postman.i2p/announce.php
Currently Down I2P Trackers:
http://ahsplxkbhemefwvvml7qovzl5a2b5xo5i7lyai7ntdunvcyfdtna.b32.i2p/announce.php
http://atia42hvtnklmilskllirvl5e27letgqghyuvrlvtaktyg32kqwq.i2p/announce
http://crs2nugpvoqygnpabqbopwyjqettwszth6ubr2fh7whstlos3a6q.b32.i2p
http://lnQ6yoBTxQuQU8EQ1FlF395ITIQF-HGJxUeFvzETLFnoczNjQvKDbtSB7aHhn853zjVXrJBgwlB9sO57KakBDaJ50lUZgVPhjlI19TgJ-CxyHhHSCeKx5JzURdEW-ucdONMynr-b2zwhsx8VQCJwCEkARvt21YkOyQDaB9IdV8aTAmP~PUJQxRwceaTMn96FcVenwdXqleE16fI8CVFOV18jbJKrhTOYpTtcZKV4l1wNYBDwKgwPx5c0kcrRzFyw5~bjuAKO~GJ5dR7BQsL7AwBoQUS4k1lwoYrG1kOIBeDD3XF8BWb6K3GOOoyjc1umYKpur3G~FxBuqtHAsDRICkEbKUqJ9mPYQlTSujhNxiRIW-oLwMtvayCFci99oX8MvazPS7~97x0Gsm-onEK1Td9nBdmq30OqDxpRtXBimbzkLbR1IKObbg9HvrKs3L-kSyGwTUmHG9rSQSoZEvFMA-S0EXO~o4g21q1oikmxPMhkeVwQ22VHB0-LZJfmLr4SAAAA.i2p/announce.php
http://omitracker.i2p/announce.php
http://opendiftracker.i2p/a
http://opentracker-actix.i2p/a
http://opentracker.skank.i2p/a
http://psi.i2p
http://tracker.crypthost.i2p
http://tracker.killyourtv.i2p
http://tracker.thebland.i2p
http://tracker.welterde.i2p
http://tu5skej67ftbxjghnx3r2txp6fqz6ulkolkejc77be2er5v5zrfq.b32.i2p/announce.php
http://uajd4nctepxpac4c4bdyrdw7qvja2a5u3x25otfhkptcjgd53ioq.b32.i2p
Unsure if all the ones currently down are just down temporarily. Some I suspect will come back (e.g. skank.i2p has been around forever so I'd be surprised if they're permanently gone).
EDIT: Browse notbob, especially their tracker listing for hints on current I2P torrent trackers and sites http://notbob.i2p/cgi-bin/defcon.cgi?category=tracker
Was going to comment the same, this issue has existed for some time for other apps. LibreTorrent ran into the same issue and now the F-Droid version is their full-featured app while the Google Play version is restricted due to Google.
Interesting that Nextcloud managed to last this long on Google Play without running into the same limitations (until now that is).
Your post title is a bit misleading, I think you're talking more about trying to speed up the process of finding nodes/peers?
All torrent clients including qBittorrent already have a built-in method of finding new DHT nodes and will find new nodes automatically. If the torrent client does not have any DHT nodes to contact yet (e.g. it's the first run and hasn't already compiled its own list of recent DHT node IP addresses) then what it does is reach out to DHT bootstrap node servers. Torrent clients usually have that coded in, sometimes you can change them - in qBittorrent you can go to Tools/Options/Advanced, under DHT Bootstrap Nodes you'll see the current list of well known bootstrap nodes that qBittorrent uses by default
dht.libtorrent.org:25401, dht.transmissionbt.com:6881, router.bittorrent.com:6881, router.utorrent.com:6881, dht.aelitis.com:6881
I think most/all torrent clients use the same ones.
Not sure how current this one is, the code to compile and run your own DHT bootstrap node server is on Github
https://github.com/bittorrent/bootstrap-dht
Back in 2016 Libtorrent launched its own bootstrap node server, it's now one of the default bootstrap node servers for most/all torrent clients.
Agreed - I'll also add that a lot of internet gateways/routers/firewalls also have a built-in feature to update a domain with your current public IP address. It definitely makes it easy, I haven't thought about needing to update my dynamic IP in years since it just happens on the router.
Not everyone can do it but it's definitely worth a look especially for those planning to do any real self hosting.
The good thing is that the public torrent itself can still be found at BTDigg and BT4G. Currently seems to be unseeded but with any luck someone will re-seed it for you. Might be worth keeping it loaded in your torrent client just in case.
Or if you ever manage to get the data from somewhere else you can re-seed it yourself for others to download.
I'd recommend I2P.
But sure, you can use Tribler if you prefer just don't set yourself to be an exit node if you're worried about other users' torrent traffic going out your own internet connection. Been years since I tinkered with it back then Tribler felt even slower than I2P torrenting and the Tribler torrent client would crash every few days/weeks, I sort of gave up on it after a while but maybe it's better nowadays.
I2P works fine, qBittorrent supports it now too. There are earlier posts in this community discussing it.
Like you said it's mostly a popularity problem, less users = less seeds/peers.
Was MakeMKV ever claimed to be open source?
Not sure if it's exactly what you want but I've used MKVtoolnix in the past for .mkv operations, worked fine for me. And ffmpeg also works great for general audio/video stuff though I've never tried bluray -> .mkv with it.
Agreed, I always leave everything seeding and also disable queuing. Leaving "Global maximum number of connections" at default setting (can be set lower) along with configuring Global Rate Limits Upload/Download to something appropriate works perfectly.
Torrent clients are smart enough to juggle the active torrents and share the allowed bandwidth between them without you having to micro-manage the whole thing.
The qbit logs just say “torrent removed” without further explanation
So the logs don't have the torrent finished line right? e.g. It never logs "Torrent download finished. Torrent: "YOUR-TORRENT-NAME" ?
If so my guess is what the other commenter mentioned, try changing the settings not to remove the torrent & see how it goes.
To be fair that would help out a ton for the less technical users that aren't too familiar with needing to browse and click through a ton of different menus just to get to something they can watch for free. This kind of stuff gets challenging for the older non-computing crowd.
And honestly if these remotes are going to have a default "Netflix", etc. button they may as well have a button for the default Google free channels.
FYI Dorsey left Bluesky
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board
Currently Jay Graber is the CEO and has the largest ownership in Bluesky
What's going on in Quebec?
The federal government is following the same strategy as some provinces. British Columbia has recently banned Tesla products from its EV charger rebate. Nova Scotia just announced that it has excluded Tesla from its $2,000 rebate at the purchase of a new EV.
Quebec just relaunched its own EV incentive program today. It will come into effect next week, and so far, Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y vehicles are still included in the list of eligible vehicles.
My network has reset several times and I’ve narrowed it down to an apparent DDOS attack
It's not. You will need to lower your torrent client's incoming connections limit and/or set lower limits to your incoming/outgoing bandwidth in your torrent client. It is clear your network router is unable to handle too much torrent traffic hitting it at the same time, hence the issues you are experiencing.
For qB
Tools / Options / Connection / Global Maximum Number Of Connections
Tools / Options / Speed / Global Rate Limits
There's no specific number to enter there, you just have to experiment a bit and set lower numbers until the problem goes away and your network is stable.
shutting down the client doesn’t help
It will, eventually. It does take a bit for other torrent clients to realize you're no longer online and stop sending you traffic / sharing your IP with other peers.
The dev shut down the github page in 2023 and later came back and re-activated it in 2024. Development is not overly active but there have been commits since then.
People still use the eMule client but nowadays the community version is the version that gets some updates
https://www.emule-project.com/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1&rm=download
https://github.com/irwir/eMule/releases/
But technically any eMule / KAD compatible client can connect to the servers and download/upload to users there e.g. Mldonkey is another client being used.
It's been a few years since I was last active on there but back then there was still a healthy amount of users and activity, I suspect it's still going strong.
Yup. The Tixati torrent client is also developed by the same dev team (mainly Kevin Hearn I believe).
I think that the timeline was WinMX, then Tixati, then Fopnu, then DarkMX. (Tixati / Fopnu / DarkMX are still actively developed and updated)
Should be able to do that with Jellyfin, no Plex/Plex Pass needed (if you really want to use media software for this).
That said I suspect your current method with creating a torrent to share is much more resilient when dealing with choppy internet connections. With Jellyfin/Plex it's more of a direct download situation, not sure if either can resume broken downloads.
You may as well call them and ask. Main things you want to find out are what plans/prices they offer and if they have any data caps. And/or if it's still under construction definitely ask to be put on their list of interested customers.
Honestly just about anything fiber is going to be an improvement over Comcast cable internet... if I were you I'd at least inquire if they have a 1 gig download/upload plan and work from there. Good luck!