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Bandwidth issues related to monitor

PostPosted: 17 Apr 2014 12:10
by Geekster86
1) In shareaza settings I have correcly applied info about the bandwidth of my internet connection. When I have the slider in the bandwidth-monitor set to 100% shareaza seems to limits the download-speed by a bit. I have to drag the slider a step up to the "MAX" position (which makes the monitor look "red-ish") in order to get full speed - this might be a bug.

2) Shareaza does not remember the setting of the slider when dragged to "MAX". After app-restart the slider goes back down to 100% (which limits bandwidth) - this might be a bug cause it would be nice to have the "MAX" position remembered for next session.

Thanx! :)

Re: Bandwidth issues related to monitor

PostPosted: 17 Apr 2014 15:53
by old_death
This is intentional. On some systems aggressively trying to use all bandwidth (even more than you set in your settings - which is what MAX does) can interfere with your web browsing (slowly loading pages, lagging embedded videos etc.). Therefore we have decided in the past to make Shareaza a bit less aggressive and to produce less annoying side effects for that user group. ;)

Re: Bandwidth issues related to monitor

PostPosted: 17 Apr 2014 15:55
by raspopov

Re: Bandwidth issues related to monitor

PostPosted: 17 Apr 2014 18:26
by Geekster86
Thanx for your replies!

old_death: Correct. But why not let users decide how much they want to choke their internet connection? Shareaza allows the users to use saved settings that establishes far more socket connections than most routers can manage causing their internet to become un-responsive even if the bandwidth is not nearly used and this can be quite hard for average users to debug. But regarding the "MAX" option that's up to the software to decide? Hmm :? ;)

raspopov: Prove is hard to supply. My internet is about 15/2 mbit which is seldomly maxed out by p2p downloads. If I have the monitor set to 100% and a download progressing at 50KB/s this download might instantaneously increase it's speed to 60KB/s or more by using the "MAX"-bandwidth option in the monitor. Also; I often use Shareaza to download recordings from my harddisk-recorder to my computer and these LAN-transfers are limited by the WAN-speed settings until I use the "MAX"-option which increases speed from ~1,5MB/s to 4,5MB/s. For transfers in excess of 10GB that's a lot of speed and time wasted for no reason. Would it be possible to make an expert-setting called something like "Always use max-bandwidth", "Remember MAX-bandwidth setting" or alike?

Re: Bandwidth issues related to monitor

PostPosted: 20 Apr 2014 01:42
by old_death