• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know, I used to use a VPN to France (not the same server each time) when I was downloading torrents, and when I forgot to turn it off, uploads for work were glacial. High upload speed is really necessary for my work because I regularly upload files which are half a gigabyte or more and need to get that done as quickly as possible. Now I VPN to Canada and I don’t really have that problem anymore.

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      1 year ago

      Uploads would likely be a lot more affected as your connection is very lopsided. I should have been more specific that down is a lot more difficult to max out. And uploads are more affected by your connection speed. So yeah, uploads you may see a difference. Depending on what you’re torrenting though, VPN is likely safer for that to begin with.

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      1 year ago

      A torrent client may need settings in the client changed, firewall rules changed, and ports open on the router. Even with all that a VPN could still have a limited connection. Some VPNs allow you control over this but I doubt free ones do

      Things are changing rapidly but asynchronous upload/download speeds are not always offered by ISPs and uploading was always slower than downloading… used to be never but I’ve seen more and more ISPs offer asynchronous speeds

      There are a huge number of factors that we don’t know that could account for your slower speeds

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        1 year ago

        Fair enough, I’m not an expert. I just know what I experienced when I used the VPN (PrivateInternetAccess FWIW). I didn’t change any settings on it.

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      1 year ago

      Upload speeds will be a lot slower than downloads speeds because VPNs are optimised for downloading. That’s one you mate.

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          1 year ago

          Eh? You are giving VPNs a bad review without knowing how to use them effectively. There is nothing wrong with not knowing something only with assuming.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Considering I use my VPN almost every day, how am I giving them a bad review? I even said I didn’t have this problem when I connected to Canada.