Ignore time-based Speed Limit for some groups

[tcn33]

Transmission already has the Speed Limit feature (the little turtle that automatically limits your bandwidth usage during certain hours). But wouldn't it be great to have certain torrents ignore this limit?

Let's say it's Monday night and there are six shows on that you plan to download, it's the end of the month and you're running out of quota. You can let Speed Limit handle this, so all your torrents will be held up and not downloaded until you get into your offpeak hours. But what if you really want to watch one of those shows tonight?

You could:

• wait until you get home,
• then pause every other torrent,
• then turn off Speed Limit (by clicking on the turtle),
• wait until that one show downloads,
• then reinstate Speed Limit,
• then unpause all your torrents.

Wouldn't it be easier to set up your groups so that the essential shows (the ones you want to download in peak hours) are automatically assigned to one group, and the non-essential off-peak shows are in another, and then be able to select whether the time-based Speed Limit applies to that group? This doesn't have to be a complicated feature, even just a checkbox inside the Preferences > Groups tab that says "Ignore Speed Limit for this group" would do the trick.

It might be that I'm the only one who sees a use for this = for users who don't use groups it would never even be seen. But for anyone who has to deal with differing download quotas based on the time of day, and particularly for anyone who uses tools like Automatic or TVShows to automate their downloading, it would be a very powerful feature.

If you agree that this would be a useful feature, please add a comment to the ticket in trac.

https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3532

[tcn33]

Nobody else would find this useful?

[hippy dave]

sounds pretty good to me. tho you can't currently do it per group, you can do it per torrent - in the last tab of the inspector, untick "stay within the global bandwidth limits", and then set specific limits if you want to.