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Option to limit download/upload speed.
That would be nice to have this kind of options (especially for slow connection). Most torrent client have this kind of options.
This feels like a must feature. Otherwise when starting a torrent it takes the whole network bandwidth killing the connection for other devices or computers connected to it. It makes the app unusable.
Thank you very much
Along the same lines, if it were possible to limit the amount of connections being made this would be awesome. This thing crushes my router on my DSL internet. Disconnects constantly due to too many connections being made.
@mikeytusa There is already a way to limit the amount of connections. Use the maxConns property. :-)
@feross not sure if you realised, but this is the WebTorrent Desktop repo, and we don't have an option for that yet. I'll try to see if I can add one soon :)
I love the app, but it's been over a year and there's still no ability to limit the speeds. Running webtorrent maxes out my connection speed and simply makes any other application that makes network requests unusable on my entire network.
Right now, I tried to download a MOOC that was offered via torrent while also working on a side project. It's really disappointing that this has been a known issue for a year and has not been resolved. Nothing complex, just a user controlled global limit to D/L and U/L so that I can use it as both a traditional torrent client and a streaming torrent player. Don't mind the ratios because this app is meant to be on a media machine, not a seedbox.
This simple change would make WebTorrent a functional torrent client, allowing me to only have torrent app installed. If help is needed, I'd be happy to volunteer my time on this feature (I need to start contributing to OSS instead of complaining :)
I need to start contributing to OSS instead of complaining
Exactly. A PR is always welcome in OSS :)
It looks like there is a dependency on webtorrent itself to enable upload/download throttling before we can implement it here.
Relevant webtorrent issue: webtorrent/webtorrent#163
And an outstanding PR that seems to implement it: webtorrent/webtorrent#1040
A very much needed feature. I can't do much else when webtorrent steals the hole network. Sometimes i need to reconnect to my wifi when i'm downloading too fast
2 Years later still nothing . the app is really unusable for me right now .
Guys try to tweet at them on twitter @WebTorrentApp , i see that they are active there hopefully they can do something about it .
👋 Hey, thanks for your passion for fixing this issue. This project is a volunteer-run effort. I'm slowly going through my backlog and trying to get a sense of what's important to the future of the WebTorrent project.
This issue will be high on my list.
But realize that there are only a handful of us working on WebTorrent and this isn't our full-time jobs. If you have JavaScript skills, please consider helping out by fixing bugs, leaving comments to help users who are asking questions, etc. Anything that can help lighten the load of the maintainers is appreciated.
Thanks.
+1 to this. I'm also facing the annoyance of a torrent downloading at a few kb at most (if any at all) and sucking up my upload bandwidth completely.
And while this project looks very cool, contributing a change like this myself (i am a developer) has a bit of a steep learning curve as the code logic isn't quite clear to me. For instance, where is the part that is actually downloading a torrent? I'm still searching...
2 Years later still nothing . the app is really unusable for me right now .
i agree with you, it seems to be a great potential but in current state is pretty unusable, unfortunately.
I think they have added it time ago, you can check here 
and at this link of updated docs "https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/blob/master/docs/api.md"
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Completed. The PR is live: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop/pull/2308
Submitted a new PR that addresses this feature at https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop/pull/2310