I think that if it looked in 'All Users/Documents' and didn't find a datafile, it should ask the user what their bandwidth limits are, and the percent of those limits that torrents should limit themselves to. That would then be written to a hidden file in 'All Users/Documents' for future reference by all running instances. It would also require that all running instances be able to communicate with each other, so that they all stay within those limits
2 2008-06-14 15:46:33
Re: Torrent2exe v1.0 (12 replies, posted in General forum)
It's a nice little program that does what it should, easily. Bravo! I do have a few suggestions, though:
*Automatically limit the upload:download ratio to 1:5 (or whatever), so the torrents don't choke other processes quite so much. (That ratio is what most ISP's seem to use for their clients' bandwidth. When you saturation the upload bandwidth with unlimited upload speeds, you kill things like Skype, online gaming, etc.)
*Provide information about what port your client uses, so that those who don't have UPnP enabled can set up their port forwarding properly. (I don't have UPnP enabled on my router, so I don't know if you use it.)
*Include a 'Save to' dialog, in case they want to save the downloaded file to a particular location.