Calling Azureus experts, I need help

[marcanthony]

Hello

Ive recently moved to an ISP which has no download limits as my previous ISP changed their rules so that 30Gb was the monthly limit, which i was using in a week, so i moved.

But now my new ISP has a 'fair usage policy' which means, at all times except 'PEAK' times i can download as much as i want. Now at the 'PEAK' times (6pm-11pm weekdays, 12noon - 4pm weekends) i am supposed to stop downloading or i will be made to suffer slow speeds all the time. Ive had 2 warnings so far and im now on my last.

Im just asking if anyone knows a way to get around this, or if not, i was thinking, if i stop all my downloads in the PEAK times but still allow uploading then at leat that is something, but i use Azureus, and i cant stop downloading and leave uploading going. Does anyone know a way. All i can seem to do is to set the download speed to a minimum of 1kb/s for each torrent, but even if i do this i know i will get my final warning.

I need my downloading to be '0' and my uploading to remain at full speed.

Can anyone help my out. Its impossible for me to find an ISP which has unlimited download that doesn't cost a fortune.

Regards

Marc Anthony

[rainbowdemon]

I have SBC Yahoo dsl. I've been downloading (and uploading) like a madman for two years. Nobody's complained yet.

[marcanthony]

I have SBC Yahoo dsl. I've been downloading (and uploading) like a madman for two years. Nobody's complained yet.

Im in the UK

As far as i know, the only company that offers unlimited downloads is Aol, which is £30 a month ($60 US) which is too expensive for me, plus i hate Aol.

Here in the UK we do not have the choice and speed like you lot in the US or in Japan, 2Mb/s is a top spec speed here, in US and Japan, 2Mb/s gets laughed at.

I currently pay £15 per month ($30) for a 2.2Mb/s speed with this 'Fair Usage' account, which is the most i can afford really (im a student)

So can anyone help with Azureus, how to stop downloading totally and still allow uploading???

Marc

[Betamax]

Im in the UK

As far as i know, the only company that offers unlimited downloads is Aol, which is £30 a month ($60 US) which is too expensive for me, plus i hate Aol.

Here in the UK we do not have the choice and speed like you lot in the US or in Japan, 2Mb/s is a top spec speed here, in US and Japan, 2Mb/s gets laughed at.

I currently pay £15 per month ($30) for a 2.2Mb/s speed with this 'Fair Usage' account, which is the most i can afford really (im a student)

So can anyone help with Azureus, how to stop downloading totally and still allow uploading???

Marc

There are a few more UK ISPs that offer 'unlimited' services. I've been with Pipex for a while now without problems. With BT the main limiting factor for me is my upload. Upgrading from 512->1meg hasn't really allowed me to dl that much more via BitTorrent because my upload remained at 256k. 1meg does help with direct dl's & streaming tho.

[.:sp00ky:.]

Im in the UK

As far as i know, the only company that offers unlimited downloads is Aol, which is £30 a month ($60 US) which is too expensive for me, plus i hate Aol.

Here in the UK we do not have the choice and speed like you lot in the US or in Japan, 2Mb/s is a top spec speed here, in US and Japan, 2Mb/s gets laughed at.

I currently pay £15 per month ($30) for a 2.2Mb/s speed with this 'Fair Usage' account, which is the most i can afford really (im a student)

So can anyone help with Azureus, how to stop downloading totally and still allow uploading???

Marc

Not to be too rude but everything you said is wrong.

As far as i know, the only company that offers unlimited downloads is Aol, which is £30 a month ($60 US) which is too expensive for me, plus i hate Aol.

Wrong .Lots of small isp offer unlimited bb I am with ukonline I pay 9.99 a month and have unlimited upload and downoad Iv been with them a year now and I use my bandwidth 24/7 and iv had no complaints at all and so I shouldn't I pay their bills.

Here in the UK we do not have the choice and speed like you lot in the US or in Japan, 2Mb/s is a top spec speed here, in US and Japan, 2Mb/s gets laughed at.

Wrong .We have 8mb at least maybe faster but I know for a fact we have 8mb and early next year we will have 16mb

with this 'Fair Usage' account

Fair usage my arse you pay for broadband their for you should have the bandwidth you payed for 24/7:hi

^__^

[marcanthony]

I dont want to get into an argument about ISP's, but i think you will find that in America and Japan, the average internet connection, which most average users can justify paying for, is a hell of a lot faster than here in the UK.

Sure, you can get faster connection, but at a high cost. I would consider the average user bugget for internet between £15 - £30. Your average Joe Bloggs isn't going to want to spend more than that. In the UK that price range is internet speeds of between 1 - 2Mb/s. Now go see what that is in America and Japan. They are a good few years in front of us with regard to infrastructure and technology.

I currently use Tiscali, which for £17.99 a month (not £15 like i thought) i get 2.2Mb/s for 19 hours a day, which i think is unbeatable in this country in terms of speed/cost.

I agree the fair usage is a bloody con, but it is ONLY 5 hours a day.

NOW DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW I CAN STOP MY DOWNLOADS IN AZUREUS AND KEEP UPLOADING TO THE MAXIMUM:icon_scra

[user10]

i dont think its free though but..
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/1827/image4oh.gif

[derekb]

Blueyonder in the UK is 15quid a month for 2meg and no limits(and thats with a tv package chucked in for a year)
You should shop around more

[marcanthony]

Blueyonder in the UK is 15quid a month for 2meg and no limits(and thats with a tv package chucked in for a year)
You should shop around more

Yeah, blueyonder is great.....as long as your in a valid area of the country

If only it was available in my area:icon_puke

[catch22713]

You should be able to cap the download bandwidth in the same way you can cap the upload bandwidth. Tools -> Options -> Transfer. Set it to 1kb/sec. Or you can right click a torrent you're downloading and tell it to stop.

[Wizzywiz]

Im With Tiscali. Got a letter saying that i had had warnings and therefore i was being moved onto the extreme users server and that it wud only effect me during peak times. Now i can download at max 8KBs 24/7 which is shit and i cant play any games online. I checked my usage on my tiscali account and it had made copies of all the times i used the internet during the period that they sent warnings so now i am complaining.
Its pretty shit when they say that u will not get affected much........ not being affected much=max 8KBs any time of day and you timeout a connection to anything

[Greylin]

Just use the Azureus Speed Scheduler (http://students.cs.byu.edu/~djsmith/azureus/) it can limit both uploads and downloads.