Torrents on RT-AC87U running latest Merlin

[knfevg]

Hello Everybody,
Until now I've been running Transmission BT Client on my old ReadyNas RN-104. All worked fine besides the issue that the CPU couldn't handle speeds over 10MBps (I'm still investigating it, maybe there is a solution but for now that's the situation, the CPU gets to 100% when speed hits ~10MBps). I want to see if I can get better results by running a BT client on the router but saving the downloads to NAS (the read/write speeds of the NAS over 1Gbe are about 40MBps). When I download to a computer I can get to 35-45MBps in torrents (the Internet link is 500Mbps/10Mbps). Will the router be able to handle this together with it's regular tasks?

 

[Makaveli]

Hello Everybody,
Until now I've been running Transmission BT Client on my old ReadyNas RN-104. All worked fine besides the issue that the CPU couldn't handle speeds over 10MBps (I'm still investigating it, maybe there is a solution but for now that's the situation, the CPU gets to 100% when speed hits ~10MBps). I want to see if I can get better results by running a BT client on the router but saving the downloads to NAS (the read/write speeds of the NAS over 1Gbe are about 40MBps). When I download to a computer I can get to 35-45MBps in torrents (the Internet link is 500Mbps/10Mbps). Will the router be able to handle this together with it's regular tasks?

I wouldn't bother using up the router cpu cycles for this.

Do the torrents on the PC and leave the router to route network traffic.

 

[knfevg]

Yeah, I agree with you. That is also correct for the NAS - let is serve storage and now download torrents... But I don't have another computer to spare, or mostly dont want to take up space, just to download torrents...
Just got a thought, would an old Rpi be a lento handle torrents at 500Mbps?

 

[peepsnet]

Get a Pi 4 with gigabit eth and load it up with
https://dietpi.com/

 

[Vexira]

Yeah, I agree with you. That is also correct for the NAS - let is serve storage and now download torrents... But I don't have another computer to spare, or mostly dont want to take up space, just to download torrents...
Just got a thought, would an old Rpi be a lento handle torrents at 500Mbps?

A pi will be fine.