Get a VPN with port forwarding. Problem solved.
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In qBittorrent what is the Status of DHT, PeX, LSD when you click on the torrent and click its Trackers tab?
I’m on CGNAT
Your own torrent peer is not and cannot be connectable (port forwarded), unfortunately.
Not sure if you'll be able to get much improvement, it'll always be slow or impossible depending on the amount of connectable peers in the torrent swarm. But you should be seeing okay-ish speeds if the torrent you're trying to download has tons of connectable peers. Does the torrent you're downloading have a lot of seeds/leeches on it?
PS - If you're saying everything usually works fine then something changed, could try restarting your internet router just to rule that out.
Update: I was somehow able to torrent a different one with aria2c, and it went at full speed, so I'm very sure that I'm NOT being blocked by my ISP...
I feel like a linux ISO swarm would have quite a lot of fully connectable peers.
Okay, now that's weird. I switched to "any interface" for what to bind to instead of my Ethernet interface and that somehow made torrenting work again?
Sounds like ISP throttling. Are you using a vpn?
I'm pretty sure it's not ISP throttling but more some weird BitTorrent issue; how was aria2c able to saturate my connection while BitTorrent couldn't move a single byte to save its life?
I've never used any CLI BitTorrent apps so I'm not familiar with aria2c. That being said, I've had no problems with qbit on windows or Linux. Try checking your settings to use if you're binded to your vpn, if that doesn't work then there's other applications like Transmission that are good. If that still doesn't work then most "linux ISOs" have a direct download option
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