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qBittorrent Configuration Settings
Setting Value Explanation
Default Torrent Management Mode: Automatic Automatically move files based on category
When Torrent Category changed: Relocate Torrent Automatically move files based on category
When Default Save Path changed: Relocate Affected Torrents Automatically move files based on category
When Category Save Path changed: Relocate Affected Torrents Automatically move files based on category
Default Save Path: /media/download/torrent/complete Set to your dataset mountpoint + /complete
Keep incomplete torrents in: /media/download/torrent/temp Store incomplete torrents in a folder not monitored by apps
Copy .torrent files for finished downloads to: /media/download/torrent/backup Backup folder for all .torrent files in case of a crash
Monitored Folder /media/download/torrent/monitor Place .torrent files here to automatically start those torrents

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Connection

This should equal to your listening port you set during the installation

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Speed

  • Set Alternative Rate Limits to 10000 KiB

    • This is so during the day, or when users are using my Plex server, my qBittorrent instance isn't using ALL of my bandwidth seeding

  • Set my schedule from 08:00 to 02:00

    • 8am to 2am, which is around the time users are watching Plex

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BitTorrent

  • Disabled Local Peer Discovery
    • This is only useful if you are on a huge network, like a college campus or something like that

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WebGUI

  • Changed the password to something I would remember

Added both my LAN and Kubernetes LAN to the bypass list, this way neither of them have to authenticate, it gets annoying to log in over and over on your own network

Bypass authentication for clients in whitelisted IP subnets 

192.168.0.0/16
172.16.0.0/16

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Since I am using Traefik, I decided to add the Kubernetes LAN to:

Enable reverse proxy support 

172.16.0.0/16

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Advanced

qBittorrent Table + Explanation
Setting Value Explanation
Network interface: wg0 or tun0 Bind this to wg0 or tun0 if you are using Wireguard (wg0) or Openvpn(tun0)
Optional IP address to bind to: All Ipv4 Addresses Kubernetes doesnt support ipv6 now anyway so, I set this to just ipv4
Resolve peer countries: True Just so I can see what countries I am leeching/seeding from
Reannounce to all trackers when IP or port changed: True In the event my IP or port changes, I want everyone to know, so I can seed or leech

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