Speed Limit Per Wifi
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mmpm
Speed Limit Per Wifi
It would be great if I can set the speed limit per wifi ssid, on top of the global speed limit. For example you may want to limit the speed more when you are connected to a low speed service, and set higher speed limit when you are connected to a faster service. Could this feature be added? I searched the forum and couldn't find this function.
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Switeck
Re: Speed Limit Per Wifi
Such a feature doesn't exist, and isn't easy to do it right.
qBT would need some way of auto-sensing the wifi's speed limits -- which can vary from moment-to-moment. Running a standard speed test on that wifi would be putting a 100% load on it just to find out how fast it is -- both wasteful and annoying others using the same wifi.
If you've got qBT's settings optimized (or worse aggressive) for a high upload speed limit, then quite a few settings should be dynamically changed if upload speed is set really low.
With low total DL and UL speeds, torrents may complete quicker 1-at-a-time.
qBT might be trying to upload to 8 peers at once (global upload slots defaults to 8 ) but if max allowed upload speed is less than 25 KB/sec they will give little-to-nothing back and may even auto-snub or manually ban your connection.
qBT would need some way of auto-sensing the wifi's speed limits -- which can vary from moment-to-moment. Running a standard speed test on that wifi would be putting a 100% load on it just to find out how fast it is -- both wasteful and annoying others using the same wifi.
If you've got qBT's settings optimized (or worse aggressive) for a high upload speed limit, then quite a few settings should be dynamically changed if upload speed is set really low.
With low total DL and UL speeds, torrents may complete quicker 1-at-a-time.
qBT might be trying to upload to 8 peers at once (global upload slots defaults to 8 ) but if max allowed upload speed is less than 25 KB/sec they will give little-to-nothing back and may even auto-snub or manually ban your connection.
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mmpm
Re: Speed Limit Per Wifi
Thank you for the reply Switeck. I didn't mean that I would want an automated throttling process. I wish I could MANUALLY set the speed limit for different wifi ssid's.
I use my computer at different locations, and I am aware of the internet speed at those places. They have varying internet speed. Some are faster and the others slower. So for example I wanted not to put any restriction on the speed at all when my computer is connected to certain ssids and limit the speed at some other ssids. Would this be an impossible option?
I use my computer at different locations, and I am aware of the internet speed at those places. They have varying internet speed. Some are faster and the others slower. So for example I wanted not to put any restriction on the speed at all when my computer is connected to certain ssids and limit the speed at some other ssids. Would this be an impossible option?
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Switeck
Re: Speed Limit Per Wifi
Only way I can see something like this being implemented is someone modifying the proxy/VPN code so binding to a certain ip address or network adapter changes qBitTorrent's settings, and even that wouldn't work very well because most wifi networks reuse the same LAN ip ranges...particularly 192.168.x.x and sometimes 10.x.x.x. It wouldn't be bound/connected to the wifi's ssid.
Now if you want to make a plugin for qBitTorrent to work with wifi ssid's and change qBT's settings in the process, it might be possible -- but I don't know how difficult that would be for you.
Now if you want to make a plugin for qBitTorrent to work with wifi ssid's and change qBT's settings in the process, it might be possible -- but I don't know how difficult that would be for you.
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mmpm
Re: Speed Limit Per Wifi
Yeah ip address might not work, because my computer is not always getting static internal address. As I'm not familiar with plugins, I will just hope that this gets implemented someday.