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My Speed Limiter now always soon turns itself off. v6.34 build1886

In Options|Network... Speed Limiter is checked, and Speed Limit Time-out is not checked.

If I manually invoke the Speed Limiter (using either the Status Bar switch, or the Menu Bar's 'hand' symbol) it turns on for a few seconds then turns itself off again (and resumes "Full Speed"; even if I've clicked on a row in the Download tab to make sure the window's 'focus' is unrelated to the Speed Limit buttons).

Restarting Newsbin doesn't help.

p.s. oh for heaven's sake. I tried pausing the downloads for a few hours (so I'd have some left when trying any suggestions which might be offered), and just now when I started one the Speed Limiter is remaining ON.

You probably turned the scheduler on. It'll take over pause, speed limit and full speed state if it's enabled.

Quade wrote:You probably turned the scheduler on. It'll take over pause, speed limit and full speed state if it's enabled.

Bingo!! I just removed it from my Status Bar to prevent me from doing that by mistake again. Thank you very much Quade!

coyote2 wrote:

Quade wrote:You probably turned the scheduler on. It'll take over pause, speed limit and full speed state if it's enabled.

Bingo!! I just removed it from my Status Bar to prevent me from doing that by mistake again. Thank you very much Quade!

A bit of this issue has returned, namely: Sleep Limiter is always off when I start Newsbin, even is it was on when I last used Newsbin. (I always want Sleep Limiter on.)

Everything is as I noted it earlier in this thread:
In Options|Network... Speed Limiter is checked, and Speed Limit Time-out is not checked.
In Options|Scheduler...Enable Scheduler is not checked.
(If I re-enable Scheduler in the Status Bar, is shows as Disabled.)

Incidentally, this is a fresh install of Newsbin 6.41RC1b2122 after uninstalling it with Revo Uninstaller. (Until I did that, I was having, and still had with a normal un-/re-install, extremely frequent crashes of Newsbin. Newsbin hasn't crashed since it's most recent install.)

How about turning the scheduler back on setting every hour to "Speed Limiter"?

There's a hidden option, I'll have to dig around to find, that lets the speed limiter be persistent but, scheduler will do it too.

Quade wrote:How about turning the scheduler back on setting every hour to "Speed Limiter"?

There's a hidden option, I'll have to dig around to find, that lets the speed limiter be persistent but, scheduler will do it too.

Yes, that did it, thank you very much Quade!

coyote2 wrote:

Quade wrote:How about turning the scheduler back on setting every hour to "Speed Limiter"?

There's a hidden option, I'll have to dig around to find, that lets the speed limiter be persistent but, scheduler will do it too.

Yes, that did it, thank you very much Quade!

Hmm. I wonder if this is connected:

Now when I click "Pause the Download" (to pause all transfers), it turns itself back to "Running" in a second or two. How can I make it stay Paused, please?

Bottom left on the status bar, second from the right. You can disable the scheduler and then re-enable it without going into the options. If you tell it to run slow, it'll disable pause
automatically.

You can also select the files (or all of them) and hit the pause button on the lower toolbar to pause specific files.

Quade wrote:Bottom left on the status bar, second from the right. You can disable the scheduler and then re-enable it without going into the options. If you tell it to run slow, it'll disable pause automatically.

Thank you very much Quade! I've re-enabled display of the Scheduler on the status bar. I'm sure I'll get used to needing to click two things (Scheduler and Pause) to halt data transfer (which I do often).

NOTE:
In most current versions the speed limiter if engaged in GUI will turn itself off the next time you launch the product, and you cant turn it on quickly enough you have to remember to manually set it up in scheduler. Basically, for whatever reason its not a sticky user interface setting across launches if nto in a scheduler. I only complain because I liked to set it up right before i close newsbin, but within seconds the scheduler, if one set, will countermand the setting, before app close, and other issues. Its a cool option in general, but in 2013, for safety, I gave up and I decided to use a free utility in windows 7 that can precisely throttle limit throughput to particular apps, in very very accurately ways. It is called :
"'NetBalancer 5.2.1 Free"
the free version when MINIMIZED, not closed, but minimized,is accurate as hell. Horrible accuracy otherwise due to WinOS stealing cpu grants from faceless tasks. It can be launched every boot and minimized, and be perfect for heeding prior settings for apps, I just basically set the newsbin to be throttled to the 72% max IO limit of comca$t to prevent their published algorithm to throttle 'abusers" from kicking in ever.

I can only wonder how more amazing the non-free version of "'NetBalancer 5.2.1 Free" is, based on quality of the free version.

awesome cool newsbin product however, and I used to use its built in throttlers in the past. thanks for awesome newsbin!