Subj : Which VPN?
To   : Arelor
From : MRO
Date : Thu Jul 13 2023 05:08 pm

 Re: Which VPN?
 By: Arelor to Phigan on Thu Jul 13 2023 12:37 pm

> From a network administration perspective, bittorrent is evil incarnate. A
> bittorrent client generates multiple connections which take a lot of
> bandwidth.That is a higher strain for networking equipment than just
> downloading a file
> from a website. I have seen bittorent clients bring down LAN segments
> because they overloaded the QoS queues of their upstream router.
>

well your network administrator needs to go take some classes.
that should not happen.  and the default settings of torrent clients wont really bring anything to its knees.

> ISP hate torrent because ISP oversell more bandwidth than they have and a
> smallammount of torrenters places a lot of stress on them.
>

everyone streams nowadays. i'm sure if they have concerns they are more worried about that.
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