Bittorrent Speed settings.

[StephenN]

Hi,

I will hopefully soon be moving to ID net following a sudden and dramatic worsening of service from PIPEX (now Tiscali). My kids use bittorrent, and I would intend to set it up so that it is scheduled to run overnight to make use of the 30GB limit between 12 and 9 on supermax, thus not impeding the normal daytime internet access. How do I calculate what speed limits should I set for the bittorrent to maximise use of the 30GB cap without going over the limit.

Thanks

[Rik]

Hi Stephen and welcome to the forum, have a karma.  

Unfortunately, I know nothing about torrents, but I'm sure someone who does will be along shortly to help.

[StephenN]

Hi,
I don't think you need to know wanything about torrents - perhaps I should have phrased the question differently - what does 30GB per month between 12pm and 9 am equate to as a flat download speed? ( part of my problem is getting the conversion from GBytes to kBits/second right)

[Barndog]

edit, sorry i thought it was bit tornado(doh!) , also what i keep an eye on is my bandwith usage on your customer login page, keeps you right so you dont overdo your 30 gb

[Simon]

Hi Steven, and 

I'm a little confused by the question, to be honest.  The 30Gb per month is a bandwidth allowance, i.e. amount of downloaded traffic.  It's nothing really to do with the speed of the downloads.  I use BitTorrents, and I don't know of a feature where you can govern how much is actually downloaded over a given period.  I suppose you could limit the download speed, so that it only downloaded a certain amount over a period of time, but I think that would be quite complicated to actually put into practise.

[Malc]

I use utorrent, and when I choose what to download, abot 10 minutes before I go to bed, I start it going and limit the download speed (right click torrent, default is 0=unlimited) to about 100.

Check back after a couple of mins when it settles, assume its a 4 gig file, and it's 10pm, that means that at 9am the following morning (when peek time starts) is 11 hours away, adjust the download limit to say estimated finish time = about 11 hours.

If it's after 12pm or you wake in the night (me   just let it go to full speed (Downlaod speed = 0)

Hope this helps and makes sense!

Ask away if you've any more problems!

[Rik]

what does 30GB per month between 12pm and 9 am equate to as a flat download speed? ( part of my problem is getting the conversion from GBytes to kBits/second right)

Well, you're looking at roughly 1GB per day, so...

1Gb=1048576kB=8388608kb

Across a 9 hour span, assuming constant speeds, that means you need to limit your download to 932067kb/hr, which I translate to 258kbps, so say 250 to be on the safe side.

[Malc]

Forgot to say  and



Edit: Markup sorted

[StephenN]

Hi,
I use utorrent, and it has a built in scheduler which allows you to profile your download speeds over the day, so you can have different speeds at diferent times. It runs on a server which the kids can access from a web browser, so they add things themselves and I don't keep track of what is being downloaded. the 250kb figure makes sense, and it is probably a higher speed than I will actually get from the ADSL connection (restricted by distance to exchange, not IDnet) so I don't think the 30GB limit will be a problem.

Many thanks for all the help.

[Rik]

NP.

[Sebby]