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 I think they are filtering on any p2p activity. I was able to reproduce the throttling by turning torrents on and off, even through a vpn. Not sure how they are doing that. Eventually i turned it off but now I think they are detecting bitcoin and lightning traffic and potentially throttling me because of that.

I can’t think of anything else :/ 
 but yeah i may have to do a network wide vpn at this point, which sucks 
 what VPN protocol are you using? I had openvpn and was getting throttled to 2mbps from 1gbps. with wireguard the loss is negligible 
 Was using openvpn yeah , mullvad doesn’t support application whitelisting, but maybe I can hack something with iptables. 
 you do split tunneling at the router level with pfsense  
 wireguard 
 Take a look at @Andy Schroder ‘s StaticWire, I’m adopting it into my stack. 
 https://github.com/AndySchroder/StaticWire 
 i don't quite see the value of this... a static IP address on a cheap VPS with minimal capability but like 9tb traffic, in most parts of the world, can be had for like $3/month, i was running one via a service based in romania, and they have btcpayserver so you can even pay your bills with LN but their interface is a bit crap

then you get this tool: https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install

assuming you are running ubuntu 20/22 on the VPS, and then run it to generate all the clients you need, for mobile phones it spits out a QR code you can scan

i couldn't live without wireguard at this point... all my internet presense appears there as well, my main dev machine, my bitcoin node, my spare laptop that runs windows, and my mobile all are on wireguard, everything goes through it 
 and er, yes, the addresses route with each other of course... that's how wss://r.mleku.com is running - off my dev box, when i've got it running, been running it a lot lately to test fixes with memory utilisation and getting some other users using it and posting to it as well 
 Layer 3 vs layer 5 or 7 is massively useful for running something at home. No fucking around in your shitty isp firewall needed. 

It’s pricey right now as he hasn’t benchmarked against fiat exchange rate, but this was relatively comparable @ $5/m when I first found it. 

This setup wg automagically & since key info is portable, it can be moved to a different machine simply. It pairs well with additional tooling, like a btcpay or start9 plugin - for the end user who is scared of the terminal. 
 well, people should stop being scared of terminals because $3/month is all it costs, plus a few hours reading and working

the absurd endless drama of ipv6 is probably never going to end because tptb don't really want us to be able to do full internet wide p2p so WG is a way to skate right past that and do it anyway 
 I will simply never use IPv6. I plan to buy a subnet this year. 
 buy a whole subnet? i presume you mean 256 addresses?

i agree though, IPV4 is actually addressable to 48 bits which is a huge amount, just requires some coordination at a p2p level

i *can* use ipv6 if i want to but it's just pointless if i want to work with p2p systems, because almost nobody has p2p running on ipv6! 
 Ya, /24 is all I can justify. Plenty to start with 
 Is there a reason ipv6 isn't used for p2p? I assumed it would be easier. 
 Moved to network wide VPN setup last year and I can confirm it does kinda suck but it’s the best I could come up with. 
 run a pfsense router. mullvad has a pretty good guide about how to set a wireguard client on pfsense. but yeah, never run any torrenting on clearnet. econoalchemist has a pretty good guide on pfsense too