Lol thanks for explaining

Why is it good?

First thing a malware would do is to replace top/ps and related utilities, to mask itself. Or directly replace kernel calls. You will not notice by just checking running processes

it should affect downloading as well. It increases the number of peers able to connect to you for data exchange in both directions

honestly you are going to be fine with most VPN providers. Unless you are one of the members of the very big scene groups, you are just seeding and your threat model is just to mask your connections from your ISP.

I personally suggest to use njalla. Few people talk about it but it’s a very very good provider, better than mullvad imho. Allows port forwarding, is transparent about legal requests and have a history of support with the piratebay. On top of that paypal denied payments to them for a period, and that is usually a good sign

you don’t really have a high bandwidth so I am not surprised that it makes no difference. For me port forwarding is the difference between seeding at 16MB/s vs 3/4MB/s

Reading it right now, it is a great resource. Thank you so much for working on this