MightyZIM Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Is there or will there be an option for utorrent to automatically start/resume downloading next torrent in queue once the current one is finished? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 It already does that after it completes one torrent job in the list.Completed == seeding priority ratio reached, default being 150% (just in case you're wondering why it's not doing that once you get 100% of the file)Edit for clarity ;P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miffo Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 lol, wtf are you talking about ^^just set max active dls=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacquerz Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Newbie question about download queue:How do I know / control which torrents are next in the queue?Is it just by the order in which they are shown in the download window?I have a couple in the queue and some are more important than others for me to get.I want to set max active dls=1 so I only d/l 1 torrent at a time (I have slower connection). Then when that 1 is done I want it to continue to next torrent (immediately if possible). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 turn on the # column, that tells you the order of DLs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacquerz Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Thanx. How do make sure that the next one in the queue starts immediately after the current one finishes? (what should the seeding priority ratio be set to?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 you can alter the order with the up/down buttons on the toolbar/context menu, Ctrl Up/Down moves to the top/bottom of the queue.And um, a low value I guess, if you want it unconditionally re-queue the torrent when finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacquerz Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 It already does that after it completes one torrent job in the list.Completed == seeding priority ratio reached, default being 150% (just in case you're wondering why it's not doing that once you get 100% of the file)Edit for clarity ;POk, so I just set the seeding priority ratio to a low value to make the next torrent start right after the current one is done? Or will that result in it being started sooner?Is there any way to start it only once the current torrent is 100% done downloading? (base it on the file being 100% done d/l and not on the seeding priority ratio.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Yes, it'll do it after the current one is done dling if it's a low ratio in Seeding Priority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacquerz Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Cool, thanx for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 When all your downloads finish, it'll start seeding them one by one. I recommend that you raise the ratio back to whatever amount (100% or so) so it prioritizes them properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacquerz Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Don't you think it would make things easier if "Completed == 100% completed d/l file" instead of "Completed == seeding priority ratio reached" ? The finished d/l will start seeding anyway after it's completed, so I don't understand why it's done the way it is at the moment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 because stopping before you've seeded to a good ratio is considered hit and run (the tracker doesn't know if you're gonna seed afterwards), especially if you stop immediately after. It's generally not good practice to do what you're doing, hence why it's not the default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacquerz Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Ok, I understand that you want to prevent hit and runs, but surely the next torrent in the queue can start downloading as soon as the previous one is done d/l. The previous one will start and continue seeding immediately after its d/l is complete, while the next one in the list starts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefarious Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 i guess u could set ur queue settings to "maximum active torrents =1" and "maximum downloading torrents = 1", it shouldn't let any torrent get to seeding status as soon as you have many downloads in queue... i dont like hit & runners anyway... and utorrent of course doesnt support 'em... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacquerz Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 But then I wouldnt be able to seed more than 1 torrent at a time...Anyway, I still think "completed=100% d/l" would be a better option than "completed=seed priority ratio reached". Some torrents are very well seeded and it may take much longer for me to reach the seeding priority ratio than to finish the download. This means the next torrent in the list will be waiting longer than needed to start. But then the reverse is also true. A torrent could get stuck at a certain % while waiting for seeds to connect. In this case it may reach the seeding priority ratio way before completing the download, if it even completes the download. Then if "completed=100% d/l" the queue would be stuck for as long as the download takes to finish. So maybe this could work: "completed=seeding priority ratio reached OR download finished" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Complete can't equal 100% download completion, because it'd only help leechers. If you want to do that, by all means, do that (considered leeching, by the way), but µTorrent's not going to do that for you.Also, the completion thing only occurs when the torrent is 100% downloaded AND the seeding has been at least reached, so you won't get torrents being marked as complete but not finished downloading... that's very backwards, and people would definitely have complained a long time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacquerz Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Cool, thanx for explaining things.One last stupid question: what if the seeding ratio has been reached, but the file has not finished downloading (maybe it's stuck because there are no seeds / peers) would this hold up the queue, or would the next torrent start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 The seeding ratio only applies (obviously) to seeds.However, if the torrent has stalled completely (<1 KB/s uploading AND downloading), then the next one would start, I believe. I'm not really sure how it handles no downloading but still uploading... I think it has to be below both thresholds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacquerz Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 If I have max number of active downloads set to 1 and the first one stalls, the next one begins. If the first one that stalled now resumes downloading should the second one re-queue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 I don't know if it does, but it really should... otherwise, it'd be bypassing the option you set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacquerz Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 It seems it bypasses the option anyway if the torrents are downloading below 1 KB/s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Yes, if the stalled one starts up again then it re-queues the new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streetstopper Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 you can try this if this works for you.on torrent option:maximum number of active torrents: 1maximum number of active downloads: 1on seeding priority:set ratio to <=100, seeding time to ignore.seeding tasks have higher priority than downloading tasks: uncheckcheck the upload reate to: check: 0kB/shope this works.regards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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