by Guest on 2025/12/21 06:05:24 AM
Hello,
I recently learned about Tixati and checking it out. I noticed a recent problem with a new ISP I changed which it seems to be throttling or limiting the download speed more severely than normally. Typically it won't be as fast and only some seeders will connect and so if the top speed can download at 10 mb/s for a download it is usualy be 2-3. Now it is even slower it will be 1 mb/s and it will go down after an hour or so to 100-300 kb/s a second. The torrents are private so the ISP doesn't know what they are and send a notice but they can still see I am downloading torrents.
With my previous ISP(spectrum,now comcast) I bought my own router and I also bought a cable modem. I opened the ports which made the torrents full speed on spectrum but now the ports I opened are still blocked or the speed is limited. Aside from using an ISP do you have any suggestions? Thanks mase
by Guest on 2025/12/22 09:53:01 AM
I don't think there is anything Tixati-specific in your case.
If your ISP gives you a public (dedicated) IP address, you should be fine after forwarding the port on a router. If you get a local private network address, there's another NAT at the border of ISP network, and forwarding the port on your router only helps in some percent of corner cases for NAT traversal, but in general you won't be able to connect to other users behind NAT or firewall. However, this only directly affects ability to connect to peers, and not their speed. You might see lesser total speeds if a lot of peers on those torrent are unavailable to you.
ISP throttling torrents is a different story. First, you need to find out if it is a known issue, and what are the details. Check the internet, or talk to other users of your private tracker. You might test turning off torrents and DHT (if you only use private torrents), waiting 5-10 minutes, then changing the port and requiring peer encryption in settings. Compare the amount of peers, and their speeds. This is neither a universal solution, nor totally unnoticeable one, DPI can most likely detect any torrent traffic just by its profile. If you need to circumvent throttling, you need an opaque tunnel to the outside net (VPN). You can also ask about working solutions on the same private tracker.
