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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: chocobo2k on November 30, 2006, 09:49:49 PM

Title: How to limit Upload speed or DL Speed on Mac OS
Post by: chocobo2k on November 30, 2006, 09:49:49 PM

Hi usually in eMule I can change the upload/download ration from eMule icon in the task bar. Now how can I do that in aMule?
Enable tray icon is dimmed in aMule (Mac) preferences.
Is there another way ?

Title: Re: How to limit Upload speed or DL Speed on Mac OS
Post by: wuischke on November 30, 2006, 10:05:08 PM

Hi chocobo2k!

See Preferences->Connection->Bandwith Limits->Upload

At least on Linux this is possible as well using the tray icon.

Title: Re: How to limit Upload speed or DL Speed on Mac OS
Post by: chocobo2k on December 01, 2006, 09:20:24 PM

Thanks wuischke. In Mac there is no tray icon. I went to amule options and it is dimmed. Mac supports already tray icons. I have for my cpu meter, language input and audium. So why Mac does not have tray icon for aMule.
Now I have to go to preferences every time I want to change my speed. Another issue is that if I lowered my upload speed then my download speed with go automatically down with it. Ok I understand that but If I increased the upload speed, my download speed will remain the same so I have to increase it manually. It is annoying really.
Thanks

Title: Re: How to limit Upload speed or DL Speed on Mac OS
Post by: wuischke on December 01, 2006, 11:26:20 PM

I don't know about Mac and tray, sry, we have to wait for someone who knows.

About the other issue: Do not increase your upload limit, but your download limit. The upload limit will increase automatically as you increase the download limit.

(BTW: This happens only as long as your upload limit is below 10kB/s. >=10kB/s has no ratio limitation.)

Title: Re: How to limit Upload speed or DL Speed on Mac OS
Post by: lionel77 on December 02, 2006, 11:44:07 PM

Yes, the tray icon control does not work on OS X. The reason for this is that this would have to be done in a Mac-specific way. Unfortunately, ken is the only mac dev we have and he has been very busy with other responsibilities for some time now. Because of that, his current contributions focus primarily on bug fixes rather than on would-be-nice-to-have features on the Mac.

So the bottom line is, yes, it's a little clumsy to change the bandwidth limits through the preferences dialog, but unless we find someone who would implement this feature for OS X, we are stuck with how it currently works.

Btw, what I personally do is to use a simple amulecmd script to change my upload bandwidth limit (usually I only change it from 40 to 20 and back, so i don't have to touch the download limit, but you can easily add that as a second parameter). This "aspeed" script looks like this:

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#!/bin/sh
/Volumes/IncomingHD/-amule/aMule.app/Contents/MacOS/amulecmd -c "Set BWLimit Up $1"Then I can just type e.g. "aspeed 20" in the terminal and the upload limit is changed to 20kb/s.