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New Alt.Binz versions => Bugs => Topic started by: average_geek on November 20, 2008, 06:31:24 am
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Newbie contributor here and I feel quite lousy having my first post be a bug report, but still I had to ask:
1. Speed limits in scheduler don't seem to be respected - Under setup>connection, I setup my maximum download speed to 150 KB/Sec and then setup time-limits in scheduler. However, when I actually started downloading files, I found consistently that Alt.Binz was ignoring the speed limit. I wasn't able to take a movie to show this, but here's a screenshot that might help:
(http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7341/altbinzschedulerum5.th.png) (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=altbinzschedulerum5.png)(http://img141.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
2. Click-n-drag in Scheduler - according to this post (https://www.altbinz.net/forum/index.php?topic=1741.msg5835#msg5835) by Rdl, I should be able to click-drag, shift-click and ctrl-click in Scheduler. Can't seem to be able to any of that.
Version/OS Info:
1. Alt.Binz 0.28.3/03.11.2008
2. Windows XP SP2
PS: I do love Alt.Binz just to be clear :) - The RSS functionality is just killer!
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...Under setup>connection, I setup my maximum download speed to 150 KB/Sec and then setup time-limits in scheduler. ...
1. the max speed is not the speedlimit. it only defines the stepps of the speedlimit.
example:
your real max-speed is 10000 Mbit
you put in download max dl-speed 8000
then 8000 is 100%
50% is 4000 and so forth.
this percentage is the actual speedlimiter...
2. the speedlimit is not very exact
the speed tends to fluctuate around the set value by aproximatly 50 KB/s with speedlimits set in the area of 100 kb/s the fluctuation is substantial while it hardly effects speedlimits set around 800-1200 kb/s or above
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you put in download max dl-speed 8000
then 8000 is 100%
50% is 4000 and so forth.
this percentage is the actual speedlimiter...
Yes agreed. I have max. download speed set to 150 k and my scheduler set to 70% of max, so in the status bar when scheduler is active, I see the limit is 105 k. That's good :)
2. the speedlimit is not very exact
the speed tends to fluctuate around the set value by aproximatly 50 KB/s with speedlimits set in the area of 100 kb/s the fluctuation is substantial while it hardly effects speedlimits set around 800-1200 kb/s or above
I have to be careful about how much bandwidth I use at a time otherwise I'll start getting choked off at the network end. I already have a bunch of other applications running so if I consistently go over my limit that's going to be a big problem.
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well try lower speedlimits like 50-75 so that even with the +50kb you don't get to fast... an other idea would be to just use 1 conection that might lessen the fluctuation i imagine...
in a short test with one connection and 105k limit the max came up 115..