**VIDEO GUIDE - How to Test the Speed inside a VPN Download Container **

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**VIDEO GUIDE - How to Test the Speed inside a VPN Download Container **

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Thank you spaceinvaderone

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Another awesome video, thanks for still supporting use of my docker images.

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I’ve wondered about this so many times! I’m actually in the process of swapping download clients because I’m experiencing VPN issues, so it was a very timely video to see posted.

One issue I’m having though, is that the command window seems to randomly refresh, leaving me unable to enter any commands. I need to close and re-open it and hope that I can execute my command before this happens.

Any idea as to what may be causing this?

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This is perfect! Great timing. Thank you u/spaceinvaderone!!

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Thanks for this!! You allowed me to confirm something that I’ve long suspected… PIA in Vancouver absolutely sucks for download speed…

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You rock spaceinvaderone. What’s your current recommendation for torrent download container? I never could get deluge close to qb’s speeds

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Is Perfomance a new metric? :slight_smile:

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Awesome timing. I’ve been dealing with speed issues in some dockers after re-iping my system.

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Great video spaceinvader, thanks binhex and the rest of the unraid Devs,

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I didn’t have the option to use Wireguard. I followed your comment on updating DelugeVPN to get the newer VPN_CLIENT feature to enable Wireguard. My .ovpn file is set for Canada, but Wireguard keeps changing to EU servers. Is there a way to lock down the Wireshark to use a CA server?

EDIT: I found the wg0.conf file with the endpoint of amsterdam. What’s the proper way to select a new server?

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Hey Space, any eta on the updated Big Sur update for MacInABox?

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Your welcome. thanks for watching :slight_smile:

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Unraid doesn’t have the perfect webui. The way around this is to just use putty or any other ssh client and ssh into the server then ssh into your container.

As for the freezing I’m just a user and don’t have full logs but I’ve noticed it whenever I’m hitting some kind of bottleneck in my system like one core button 100% for 15-20 seconds. This started in the most recent update for me and happened only when I was resilvering my array. I would likely expect it to get fixed in the upcoming stable launch of 6.9. Same thing happens with removing containers as well.

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It’s partially why I’ve switched to Mullvad. I’m seeing much faster speeds there.

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I did some back to back tests–the Toronto is the fastest CA server for me.

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Deluge and qb are running on the same backend. So they will be able to perform identically. The difference is in the preset for the libtorrent settings.

You need to download the ltconfig plugin for deluge and switch the profile to “high performance seed”. After you switch to high performance seed change the active thread to however many threads are on your server/want to use because deluge will use it all. Qbit default uses 8 threads and deluge uses 4 by default. These two changes will make the two perform close to identical.

Just throwing in my two cents. If you’re not downloading hundreds of public torrents rtorrent works the best for me. I don’t race and have been able to cap out the write speed my torrent drive. Rtorrent uses less cpu downloading 250 torrents than deluge does downloading 20.

I did a good bit of testing with all 3 containers created by binhex with openvpn and with my whole system running on a wireguard vpn. The openvpn built into the containers was hitting a cpu bottleneck before either of the programs were on my 2x 8 core Xeons at 2.33ghz. Single threaded programs woo.

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Speedwise I’ve found them very similar, but I just prefer qbit. Recent troubles with qb’s broken sonarr importing and no PIA next gen VPN support on older versions lead me to jump ship to deluge though…

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Seconded to mullvad here. I was a huge fan of torguard but made the swap to mullvad after I found out that they had a full working wireguard setup with port forwarding before torguard even officially had a release. I have yet to find anything vpn other than torguard or mullvad that lets me get over 500 up and down.

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Thanks, I’ll check that one out. I’m in Oregon so figured Vancouver being the closest would be the fastest. But after running several tests this morning the fastest only being 8Mbps and the averaging being slightly less than half that clearly I was wrong. On the plus side I get 40Mbps UP so at least I seed well lol…