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I think you should keep it as it is as long as the "slowness" doesn't bother you, I use mine for the same thing and it has served me well through the years.
How is the upload speed? I have KS7 and the upload speed is not very good
It's 10/10 for me for DL and UL. I hit the caps all the time.
Same here.
Thanks for the feedback. I might as well keep it as is, I'll just need to update to ubuntu 20 as it's still running 18, and then re install the seedbox apps
10Mbps?
I run Windows 10 on mine with a bitcoin full node wallet, LOL.
Yes.
Mine can reach 100, but it is not sustainable and I prefer to fly under the radar
I'm able to max ten megabytes per second both ways.
The maximum upload speed I get is 480kbps
Even for both ways, that's kind of low. Ask them to change your node.
Wow, you got lucky to have one with 1 Gbps cap.
I've had it since they came out I think. Some people got bigger drives and got lucky, I got a faster cap
Ks1 is very rare..and its pretty good.
Keep the KS-1 it's a rare one.
I only find the speed an issue at all when re-checking hashes, when something big has finished coming in (not usually an issue, if I want something urgently I'll transfer it direct to home or wherever I currently am instead of (or as well as) using the seedbox) or when I have to restart completely for updates (that can take a short while as my KS-1 has a larger drive, usually with a good chunk more than 1Tb sat around to check, but again it has never really been an inconvenience).
If I didn't have the larger drive I'd consider using it for other things instead, but I'd not get rid as I'd likely never get it back if I changed my mind. It isn't fast, but it has been reliable over the years (one drive failure, which is how it ended up with a bigger one, not unexpected with old kit and the replacement was damn fast) and has many potential uses even considering I don't trust old kit (especially old kit without two drives I can RAID) with some tasks.
That will vary depending on where you are and where your server is… My KS-1 is in France and I'm in the UK.
It never seems to have trouble getting close to 100mbit/s in either direction with torrents unless the swarm overall is slow.
Transferring from there to me with a single stream (usually rsync over SSH) isn't always that good even when there is next to nothing going out from the seeded torrents or other tasks the machine is involved in. My home link is ~76Mbit, pulling from the KS-1 can often max that out (assuming the machine is otherwise quiet) but is occasionally as slow as ~30Mbit. I've not been bothered enough to try multiple streams when this has happened, to see if it would help any, though I have tested enough to be convinced that the bottleneck isn't my line or ISP (who have pretty decent peering arrangements to Europe) in those cases.
For what I pay, I can't (justifiably) complain.
I'm going to keep it as a seedbox. I was just wondering If it could be useful for something else.
P.S. I was never thinking of getting rid of the KS1, just wondering what to use it for.
As well as ahem Linux ISOs, mine:
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