'Advanced' user losing my damn mind.

mountswolmore

I have a 60mb connection.

I have a server running 2 VMs.

Server runs Sonarr and Couchpotato and has 12tb of storage.

BT VM runs PIA and downloads torrents to mapped drive on host server.

MS VM runs DLNA server hosting media on same mapped drive.

Previously, I had uTorrent 2.2.1 configured with PIA and port forward. Upnp disabled, uT would complain I didn't have port forwarding configured right, but I was seeding at about 200kbs while downloading around 1-2mbs. Granted, it's 1/3 my connection, but I was content.

However, when I wanted migrate to using Sonarr and CP, they only support v3 of uT and newer.... which, no thanks. So, I loaded up Deluge.

I cannot get Deluge to work after about 3 days of beating on it.

Using any of the port forward VPN locations and every combination of port, Deluge would top out around 30kbs and not upload while saying port forwarding is working. I remembered to turn off UPNP, but that didn't help either. The behavior I'd see was, set to 8 active torrents, Deluge would try to download 20+ and just bounce around hitting them randomly for 1-5kbps. Left over night, every torrent progressed about 1-10% and not a single one finished.

I've been trying every combination of setting in Deluge and PIA, but I'm consistently seeing 20-30kbps down and 0 up.

For the time being, I've configured Deluge to use SOCKS5 (verified it's actually working) and disabled PIA and I'm seeing 2mb+ on downloads, which is great... but I'm not seeding at all, which is bad- especially for my private trackers.

allogator

I'd like to chime in with having the same issue and almost exact same setup.

Deluge w/ Socks5 Auth.

My DL speeds can range all over the place but usually I'm about 1mb/s but my upload speeds are typically 10-30kp/s and, very rarely, around 100kb/s.  My private tracker ratio is super hurting after a weekish of not noticing the bad upload.

woozy

I'm no expert by any means but I thought I've read in a couple of places that PIA doesn't work well with Deluge for some reason, and older versions of uTorrent (don't "upgrade" them) were suggested.

pyro12

It was years ago, and I can't remember exactly why, but I abandoned Deluge and switched to qbittorrent.  It works quite well with PIA and port forwarding.  Give it a try.

vicar_newtoni

Deluge works for me perfectly. I'm running it on a Minnowboard Max that's handling the VPN too.

 It regularly maxes out my 50/50 Mbps connection when downloading from enough peers, and I usually get ~30 Mbps uploads for busy torrents. 

Looking at htop the bottleneck is the bottleneck, but I'm fine with it, if I upgrade my connection I might want to get something more beefy instead of the Minnowboards, but I'm definitely keeping deluged. 

I'm using a modified version of this script: https://github.com/pschmitt/pia-tools (a very very old version modified when it was simlply a shell script from 2 years ago)

If you're interested I can put that up somewhere for you to look at.