Download Ignoring Schedule Option

[Spad]

I'd find it useful to be able to select a specific download and tell it to ignore the schedule and download immediately.

I know I could just disable the schedule, but if it's a long download and there's lots of other stuff in my queue, I don't want to have to keep checking every 5 minutes to see if the download is complete so that I can turn the schedule back on to avoid hitting my download cap.

[davidq666]

I'd find it useful to be able to select a specific download and tell it to ignore the schedule and download immediately.

I know I could just disable the schedule, but if it's a long download and there's lots of other stuff in my queue, I don't want to have to keep checking every 5 minutes to see if the download is complete so that I can turn the schedule back on to avoid hitting my download cap.

wouldn't it be much easier to disable scheduler and have the pop-up or a soundfile tell u when the dowload has finished ?

[Spad]

Works if I'm at my PC, not if I'm out of the room or, indeed, out of the house.

I'll often want to kick off a download as I'm leaving work so it's available when I get home, or one of my housemates might want something downloading quickly while I'm at work or on my way out of the house.

[davidq666]

Works if I'm at my PC, not if I'm out of the room or, indeed, out of the house.

I'll often want to kick off a download as I'm leaving work so it's available when I get home, or one of my housemates might want something downloading quickly while I'm at work or on my way out of the house.

that's a valid point.
still it seems to me like a very odd thing to request. ignoring the scheduler is breaking your own rules, which raises the questtion wether those rules realy fit u...

[Spad]

In my case (Virgin Media) there's no hard cap but my connection gets throttled to 25% speed if I download more than 7Gb between 10am and 3pm and/or 3.5Gb between 4pm and 9pm, so I schedule all my downloads for 9pm to 10am by default.

While it's fine for 90% of stuff, sometimes I just need or want something outside of that timeframe but don't want to risk hitting the cap because other downloads kick themselves off once the one I want has finished.

[davidq666]

In my case (Virgin Media) there's no hard cap but my connection gets throttled to 25% speed if I download more than 7Gb between 10am and 3pm and/or 3.5Gb between 4pm and 9pm, so I schedule all my downloads for 9pm to 10am by default.

While it's fine for 90% of stuff, sometimes I just need or want something outside of that timeframe but don't want to risk hitting the cap because other downloads kick themselves off once the one I want has finished.

i see ur point but i think the better solution for ur problem would be a scheduler that can handle GB-transferlimits to determine when to stop downloading.

also see:https://www.altbinz.net/forum/index.php?topic=3020.msg12366#msg12366 

in the meantime an other idea would be to disable the scheduler and pause all collections (also paused import via rss) instead. whenever u want someting u just unpause it manualy the same thing in the evening. by daily resetting the transferd data counter (left-click) u could keep track of your downloads during the day to avoid the cap...