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This post examines how PCDN crackdowns in China have led some ISPs to throttle or suspend home broadband, even for regular BT/PT usage. It explains what PCDN is, why it affects uplink bandwidth, and details a new directive from the Jiangsu Communications Administration forbidding ISPs to arbitrarily reduce speeds or cut service, alongside the author’s own complaint and rights‑protection experience.

Updated for Mantou’s new “triple size” upload rule and the end of partial-pack racing. This guide distills PT upload racing essentials (LAN, SSD, hardware), home broadband throttling risks, and compares SeedBox vs VPS pros/cons with a throttle matrix. It also covers provider selection, BuyVM benchmarks and tuning Deluge/qBittorrent plus auto-removal scripts, helping you pick the right box and race safely.

A concise cheat sheet of mainstream PT trackers, covering speed limits, “freeleech” rules, upload constraints, per-torrent caps, and penalties for overspeeding, plus recommended RSS intervals, freeleech grabbing, and G-Drive earnings comparison. Also explains what “freebie boxes” (Yangmao servers) are and how related bans work so you can pace your bandwidth safely and avoid pitfalls.