Manual adding local peers

[Katalu]

Can you add a feature to manualy add, or mark peer as Local.

This will be whery usefull. Cause there is a problem to download big torrents grouping in the lan when there is a lot of peers in this torrent.

So as there is a any way to manual mark peer(or maybe a list of peers) that utorrent must NOT restrict speed for them, but restrict for global peers and ALWAYS keep connection for them, for more precision torrent download synchronizing.

Many, many and many people will thank you and donate you for this feature.

With regards too team that develop such a cool program ^__^, Victor.

[rizork]

Yes, this will be great feature. I want to add my ISP's subnet as local but its impossible.

[AlfeG]

So is there some advance?

Is'nt this will be great to have add manual list of ip?mas of ip to tell utorrent that this is local peers?

[dAbReAkA]

yeah.. that's great feature which was previously requested (by me if not from someone else too) but didnt get to have its own thread (i guess )

it could even be implemented the same way as the ipfilter.. some .dat file in the settings directory with IP ranges.

ISPs could provide you (well at least mine) with all their networks you can have unlimited speed to so that you can easily add it to the locals.dat file

[AlfeG]

Thats what I've think about too...

In my opinion this is not too hard to implements...

As topic starter said "A lot of people will say thanks"

[jewelisheaven]

Search for "local peer" on the forum.

For other problems, the links in my signature may help.

Also The "Limit Local Peer Bandwidth" option under Ctrl-P -> BitTorrent will enforce the limits on Local Peers. (Note: the bandwidth transfer is represented as Blue/Purple in the Speed Tab)

[AlfeG]

Problem is to force assing of group of IP addresses as Local... There is a lot of situations when Auto Local Peer deiscovery is not working =|

[dAbReAkA]

you cant discover peers from non-local networks since the broadcast packets cant reach any of them..

this feature's purpose would be to prevent those peers in the range from getting speed-shaped

[igormsk]

Hello

So 2,5 years have passed since the last post here.

Is the feature to manually add "local ip ranges", that won't be handled by the bandwidth limiter (like 10.xxx.xxx.xxx currently) unless Limit Local Peer Bandwidth enabled, still not implemented?

I have a public ip and the access speed to other ip-s from the providers network (public ip-s not from my subnet) is not limited, so it would be very useful to be make uTorrent handle them as local peers, without unnecessary limiting exchange speed with them in utorrent. Currently the are affected by the main down/upload limits.

[drhyperkalich]

Yes, it will be very useful.

My provider uses pubic ip for all users.

Yesterday i sow 2 peers in peers list from subnets of my provider but uTorrent did not use it...

Very sad. It will be great if i will be able to mark whem as local.

[Switeck]

Did you go through uTorrent's logs? It probably tried those ips and were blocked by them from connecting.

[drhyperkalich]

it was not blocked, 100%

+ i am using a nat router at home.

I know that if i want to use local peers i need not to use NAT + local peer must be from my own subnet (multicast)

May be if future it will be possible to add range of local IPs if provider?

It will be just great.

[Cetus]

+1 about the feature to manually add "local ip ranges"

It will be very useful, because there are many people who have the same situation with ISP as igormsk.

Is it already planned?

Additionally, I suppose such local peers must be prioritized, if any number of connections limit is exceeded.

[Firon]

It's on the todo, but it's been pushed back repeatedly.

[DaRkY]

Also need this feature badly

Any news about this?

And, of course, thanks for your great work!

[catfood]

A lot of Yottabytes pass through the network since this thread was created and a lot of Exabytes pass through since this feature has been add on the ToDo list. Is there any chance to expect this feature in some nearby version of the uTorrent?

[Switeck]

A user-defined "local" peer range would solve this problem, assuming people know enough to expand the range.

We'd need separate speed limits for "local" though.

[catfood]

Switeck wrote: "We'd need separate speed limits for "local" though"

I thought, that something like this, but not realy working, is already in uTorrent. It's called "Limit local peer bandwidth". You probably thought about the definition of specific speed but who would ever want to restrict traffic on the local network?

[Switeck]

When your local network is either shared or far slower than the speed of your network card you do!

You will experience packet loss and skyrocketing pingtimes if you try to send faster than the link allows.

[Euph0ria]

Bump!

I'd love to be able to add a peer as "local". I try to connect to my gf in chicago's client and vice versa when we're trying to download the same torrents. We both have quite high connection speeds so being able to share with her and vice versa helps us both complete our downloads, and helps create two new seeders faster. If not "Local Peers" than perhaps a "Preferred Peer" list. To keep a list of friends whom you're consistently connected to at high speeds and who all wish to share the same files. The transfers are completed more quickly and efficiently that way, and bring about seeders of the torrent, especially in cases when there are few and we wish to increase the number to help support the distribution of a torrent.

[DreadWingKnight]

"Preferred peers" is previously rejected because it doesn't help speeds in the way that people think it should.

[Keroro]

I'd like to have such feature too