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I'm all up and running but I don't think I'm getting the speeds I should be - and I've ran out of places to try and find the issue. Hoping someone can point me in a direction.

I generally tend to get around 30MB/s at the top end, which equates to about 240mbps of my 900mbps download speed (tested on server via firefox docker using ooklla speedtest). At 900mbps, I should be able to comfortably be hitting 100MB/s downloads, right?

I understand bottlenecking can happen but looking through other threads people seem to be getting much better speeds (70+) with lower specs than my drives so I'm not thinking is my hardware.

I'm running v4.0.2 on Unraid using the binhex-sabnzbdvpn docker container.

The bit I dont get is the spanner test returns a bandwidth lower than 30, which its currently downloading at..

System performance (Pystone) 471662 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz AVX2
Download folder speed 558.8 MB/s /config/Downloads/incomplete
Complete folder speed 568.5 MB/s /config/Downloads/complete
Internet Bandwidth 17.5 MB/s 140 Mbps

Here's an output from a test file:

DownloadDownloaded in 32 seconds at an average of 32.9 MB/s
Age: 336d
ServersNewshosting=1.0 GB


I've just restarted with basic settings and updated nothing with the same download result:

DownloadDownloaded in 30 seconds at an average of 34.7 MB/s
Age: 336d



Any insight would be hugely welcome! Thanks

With docker, and certainly Unraid, all kinds of strange problems are reported. Maybe caused by Docker's NAT or cache or disk writing. Absolutely no clear reason or solution.

It was because I was using a VPN.

The VPN's killing the speeds due to the additional encryption.

After having done some reading, due to the way usenet works, and that SABnzdb connects with SSL, the additional layer just isn't needed.

Switched out the docker for one not using a VPN and :

DownloadDownloaded in 10 seconds at an average of 105.2 MB/s
Age: 337d

Ah, good to hear!