Have qBittorrent play nice.

[Vexxmania]

I'm a new user and have been using qb for several weeks now, lovely program.
I was using Bitlord before and it had one feature that I'm really missing on qb - the ability to automatically lower the up- and download speeds when the network is being used by a different program like Youtube.

While using Bitlord, I could have multiple videos open where Bitlord would reduce the download speed to under 10 KB/s and keep it there for as long as needed, without me having to change any settings manually. Now while using qb, I find even trying to watch a single video is difficult, due to it pausing and having to wait for it to buffer. If qb could improve on this, that would be very much appreciated.

[ironcross]

Tools - Options - Speed: Enable bandwidth management (uTP)?

[Vexxmania]

[quote="ironcross"]
Tools - Options - Speed: Enable bandwidth management (uTP)?
[/quote]Already had that one enabled. Any other suggestions?

[ironcross]

As for me uTP works. If i play video it reduces the download/upload speed. Not under 10KB/s, but enough to play video smoothly. If i open more videos, it reduces the speed more and all videos plays smoothly.

[Peter]

[quote="Vexxmania"]...[/quote]

Too bad Bitlord's source is not open. I wonder how did they manage to implement such a feature.
Bitlord didn't even use uTP, it didn't even exist back then, the client is just that old.

So like... did it ping some IP and if the latency increases it will lower the speeds?
Or just... how?

[loki]

In theory uTP should lower the upload or download speed as much as necessary and no more. A much more efficient system compared to bitlord's "magic" turn down the speed as low as possible feature.
On a side-note, I see that bitlord is now apparently based on Deluge... as such bitlord IS free, open-source software as of 1.2.

Also LOL, my peer block blocks bitlord website stating that it's, "the worst BT client ever."

edit: Supposedly the source code is available, as required by using Deluge source... however the page it refers to is currently blank.

[Vexxmania]

Eh.. no need to hate. I don't know how Bitlord does what it does, but it does it extremely well. Maybe you should try it for yourself, shiki. And the bitlord you were referring to is probably 1.0. That one's history.

I've tried everything with qBittorrent, including a clean install. I'd even set the max number of connections and connections per torrent to 3, yet it'd still hog the bandwidth. I can only hope it performs better for me in the future.

[Dayman]

[quote="Vexxmania"]
And the bitlord you were referring to is probably 1.0. That one's history.
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The link which should be pointing to sources is dead anyway. I won't call it opensource.

And it looks like the sources were never there.
http://www.who.is/domain-history/deluge-torrent.org

^Disregard this. Deluge's site uses redirect when referer is bitlord's site. And that's enough for me.