Comments on: Azureus Speed Scheduler

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:00:12 +0000

I’m sorry, but I’m having difficulty with setting up the scheduler. I have searched and searched and I am just not finding the problem.

I’m on a Mac (10.6.8), it’s downloaded, schedules added, and enabled. When I go to download, the download starts automatically although its a paused window. I’m sure I’m one-click away from this working but I can’t find the missing link. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

By: Sid

Sid — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:15:28 +0000

I’ve used Speed Scheduler with Vuze (4.1.0.2) for some years now and it’s been fine. Lately though there’s been a change:

When I set, say, a 20K max upload speed, the lower bar shows [20K] as normal but the upload speed will happily go up to 37K or more. It was always rock-solid limited to 20K before. I don’t have Auto-Speed turned on in Vuze (and there is no asterisk beside [20K] ).

I feel sure this is happening because of some parameter I’ve changed in Vuze options but I’ve been searching for weeks and can’t figure it out.

Any ideas?

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:22:23 +0000

Uninstall Speed Schedular, exit Vuze, reopen Vuze by right clicking and select run as administrator… run the plugin installation wizard from Tools:Plugins install speed schedular for all users… exit vuze when installation is complete.
You must create schedules when Vuze is opened by right clicking and run as administrator.. otherwise open normally…. working perfectly here.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:15:22 +0000

Hi Dave,
I have installed the plug-in and have set up a schedule for a 12.15am – 11.45am schedule, yet the current files in the queue still download and that’s not what I’m after. I’m running Mac OS X 10.6.7 – any suggestions?

Thank-you

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:52:24 +0000

Hi,
I am another unfortunate person who is stuck with on/off peak limits my off peak is between 2am and 10am, I program this into speed scheduler and come back in the morning to find out that it hasn’t downloaded.
Any help with this would be much appreciated

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:05:39 +0000

Hi Dave! Thanks for your response. I downloaded a file that allows you to “take ownership” of files. Would this have anything to do with permissions? I might try it out tomorrow.

Hmmmmm……maybe I should try and move to Utorrent. There are quite a number of things I like in Vuze over Utorrent though, but this scheduler is a mighty big issue…..
I also don’t like switching torrent clients because
1. It means hours and hours and hours [even days] of work renaming all the files [because all torrent clients very irritatingly and EGOTISTICALLY rename the partially downloaded files with an extension, such as bitcomet with ".bc!" , I forget the utorrent extension, but Utorrent does it too. Vuze does not do this, the only client that is not so egotistical as to piss an abbreviation of it's name on everything]
and after renaming them, opening them in the new client [no guarantee it will even do so and continue the download.

2. I also feel very bad that I am unable to continue seeding all the things I have downloaded when I switch clients [which I have only done twice completely]. It is far too much effort to open all the downloaded files individually [and also cancels out my good share-ratio which takes aaages to build up ): ]

I actually found your scheduler a LOT easier and nice to use than Utorrent’s [having to check ALL those endless boxes. Annoying!]

This is a really great plugin, I hope somebody takes up the cause.

Thanks again for your answer !! Sad to hear it’s no longer in development.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:10:39 +0000

P.S. I highly recommend uTorrent. It has a much nicer scheduler built in, and in my opinion, it’s an all-around better way to BitTorrent.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:08:42 +0000

I’m afraid this plugin is down-right broken with Windows 7. It’ll need to be re-designed to work with Windows 7′s new file permission scheme. That doesn’t look like it’s going to happen in the near term (at least by me). I’m looking for someone to take over the (small) project. If you know anyone…

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:59:26 +0000

Hi,

I had the same problem and error messages as Dicko, however Faldiin’s solution didn’t work. I opened Vuze in admin mode, made the schedule, closed and reopened Vuze, and the schedule was gone, with the same error message again. Any help?

Thanks. :)

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:38:46 +0000

Hi Dave!
Speed Scheduler is no longer working on my PC. I have tried both versions, and neither is working.
I have tried installing it via the vuze install wizard, and by downloading the individual files, and neither way has worked……
Speed Scheduler still works on my Mac though, which is good, but for some reason no longer works on the PC ):
Really hope there is some way to fix it, it is such a fantastic piece of software!!
Thanks so much for designing it.
Best regards,
–Carl