I have a router I’m running nord vpn but I use bitTorrent on windows and I’m looking to switch. Does anyone have a flavor of Linux and program they use?

Any advice would be helpful I’m getting nowhere on forums.

  • GuardYaGrill@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    Asus WRT Router > Proton VPN

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    ProxMox EV

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    Debian 12 Headless VM

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    Docker Compose

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    Docker Engine

    • Unbound
    • Pihole
    • Prowlarr (for indexers)
    • Radarr
    • Sonarr
    • Lidarr
    • Readarr
    • 4 Instances of QBit for each ‘Arr
    • Jellyfin
    • Jellyseerr
    • Traefik for SSL/TLS
    • Homepage

    Kind of a crude & simplified way of putting my setup but I think it gets the point across.

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      Just out of curiosity, why bother running 4 instances of qBit for the various *arrs? Why not just use automatic torrent management, and have the different categories download to different folders? My *arrs are all using a single instance of qBit, and each service simply uses a different category with a different download path.

      The benefit is that I can see my total up/down speeds, ratios, etc very easily without needing to change to an entirely different instance. I can filter by category, or see everything at the same time.

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      18 hours ago

      +1 for the WRT router, if you can get a decent device with an enough powerful CPU it can host Transmission

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        1 hour ago

        Asus WRT Routers are great however, it doesn’t support certain Registrars for DDNS like Cloudflare so I had to install Merlin Firmware, ssh into the router and then manually configure a cron-job so that my A records stay up to date with my WAN.

        https://github.com/clayauld/asus-merlin-cloudflare-ddns

        Thankfully somebody already been down this path a posted the documentation which made things 100x easier.

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          My ISP uses CG-WAN so in order for me to remote into it, I had to set up Tailscale, the OS isn’t perfect but is way better than any consumer grade router in the market. I also use a custom firmware, a forked version of OpenWRT that works with routers with modems.