On 6/10/05, Roger Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/10/05, Simon Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Your question does seem a bit odd though. If you had mentioned > > > what&why you are really trying to achieve, then perhaps > > there would be > > > a better or more appropriate way... > > > > Basically optusnet cable gives you free bandwidth from 2am > > til 9am. I want BitTorrent (python script) to start up at > > 2am, (and prefferably stop at 9am) automatically so that i > > can take full advantage of this free bandwidth without > > wasting my other bandwidth all the time. > > > > I will try your suggestions and let you know. > > If you're not averse to using Java, Azureus (excellent bt client) has a > plugin >available (SpeedScheduler) for setting bandwidth limits at different > times. You >can, for example, upload at all hours, and pause or throttle > downloads between >9am and 2am.
Good point. Will try this one out. Have been looking for such a thing inside a BT client but never found anything, hence this post. Thanks Adam -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
