Bittorrent on an EXTREMELY limited pipe

[orangepoptart]

I want to download files that are about 1.7gb in size but I have like a 7gb upload for the entire month. When I download I get uploaded from 3X as fast as I download. I won't be able to probably get the entire file and still use internet for an entire month with everyone that sucks my bandwith.

I would LOVE it if anyone could tell me if there was a client that would let me regulate the ammount of upload, not to put it as 0 but something like half of what I download or download = upload. I just can't give the bandwith it is sucking now. I am also shareing this connection with someone. So thats my problem.

[timothykaine]

If you install bittorrent-gui, then you can use the Curses client that runs in a terminal session. Convenient especially if you run a tabbed terminal like Konsole in KDE. You will need to have pycurses (python-curses) installed to use this.

Heres an example command you can play with:

/usr/bin/btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate "XX" /home/username/torrentname.torrent

XX represents how many kilobytes you intend to upload per second. 01 represents 1kbps, 10 represents 10kbps, etc. I have very limited upload speeds, and every 5 kbps I upload takes 50kbps of download speed away from my potential total bandwidth, so I know the feeling. Find your balance with this, and stick to it. Just to let you know, certain torrents will only let you use the regular GUI, but its very rare that I run across it.

Remember, it will not download to the directory that you have the torrent file in, it will download to whatever directory you run the command from. So be sure to run this command in terminal from whatever directory you want the results to download to. And of course, run it from that same directory the next time, and it will resume just like the other gui's.

[bosox79]

you should be able to do this using Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php)

[pickarooney]

Or the much lighter BitTornado (http://bittornado.com/).