Bandwidth thresholds (help with ISP capping)

[CurioCT]

Hi guys,

Great software I love it the multi threading per file is superb and the integration of the search engines top notch. and the fact it's totally portable just beyond great.

This post is mostly a feature request but also a bug report I guess.

My ISP rate caps when certain thresholds are met, So for example between 10am and 3pm I am allowed 7000Mbps (less than one hours downloading) before they rate cap my connection for 5 hours. (this even if you exceed the limit 1 minute before the deadline)

Now your scheduler tool is brilliant for this, but the bandwidth throttling doesnt seem to work? (is this a known issue or something I am uniquely experiencing)

So my feature request would be the ability to pause downloads automatically when X amount has been downloaded.

Oh and Grabit search engine but that's in the poll thread

[Hecks]

On the speed throttling question: presumably you mean 8 Mbps or 8000 Kbps or ~1000 KB/s?  You should set the value of Setup -> Connection -> Maximum dowload speed to 900 or 1000.  That will be 100% speed as far as the Scheduler/Limiter is concerned.  Then with the Scheduler you can set it to 'No downloading' (0%, the first click after 'No limit') for certain times, and click the Scheduler button on the main toolbar.  That won't help with your dl threshold issue, but presumably you're able to look at the size of your queue between 10 and 3 and pause anything over your limit. 

Otherwise are you suggesting that the Scheduler should keep count, but only between certain times?

[CurioCT]

Sorry for the typo yes I mean 7000MB (just shy of 7gig) or about an hours downloading

so yes to be able to tell the software not to download more than 6000MB between 10am and 3pm and then a different amount between another pair of times

and yes I know how the scheduler is supposed to work with each click but my point was it doesn't I tried setting 10% but as as it starts, it downloads at full whack which basically means I need to disable all together

[Hecks]

The Scheduler works as I described.  I'm not sure what else to suggest to you, apart from have you tried settings > 10%?

And it seems that, for the download limits, you'd actually need a second Scheduler page.  Unless there's a more obvious way I'm missing.

[CurioCT]

ok well I just tried every setting on two different computers and no dice full speed all the time.

only common factor I should mention is both are connected with wifi

hmm just thought might be able to solve this issue with my firewall, that has some qos stuff


even so some kind of time based download limit would be helpful or even an absolute limit until reset would be useful

[Hecks]

Are you absolutely sure that you've enabled the Scheduler button on the main toolbar, and that you've set your maximum speed properly in Setup -> Connection?

To test, disable Scheduler and try the manual limiter (bottom left of status bar).  If you don't see any speed changes then, something is wrong.  It works perfectly fine here with WiFi.

[CurioCT]

Thanks so much I have it working

in an ideal world an absolute limit would still be great buI can make this work for me

you guys are stars

[davidq666]

+ 1 i agree absolutly since i've requested something simular myself not to long ago
https://www.altbinz.net/forum/index.php?topic=3020.0