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WHAT'S the best torrent client client for scheduling downloads?

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What's the best torrent client to schedule /set downloads to specific times?
 
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What's the best torrent client to schedule /set downloads to specific times?
If you want a really advanced scheduler, Tixati is the only one out there that does it I believe. Its the only client that allows you to start and stop at specific times including minutes, among other things you can do with it. While its free and has no ads, it is not open source.

If open source is your thing, the closest option is Deluge. It has a scheduler plugin built in with a grid style view with one hour blocks if im not mistaken. You can choose whether it transfers at full speed, it transfers at reduced speeds, it only seeds or it pauses transfers during a specific hour of each day. But this acts more like a speed limiter where it pauses transfers by setting the speed limit to 0. I think.

I don't use a scheduler, and I use qBittorrent. qBittorent is awesome and opensource but it only has a really basic scheduler to limit speeds at specific times on specific days, not on a per day basis. It doesn't pause or stop transfers, you can only limit the speed to the minimum of 1KiBps. Therefore I do not recommend it.

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Edit: I just realized you didnt specify what platform you are planning to use your torrent client. If its on the Mac OS, I'm not sure there is a good option available. Someone else has to advice you then. Tixati and Deluge runs on Linux and Windows
 
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If you want a really advanced scheduler, Tixati is the only one out there that does it I believe. Its the only client that allows you to start and stop at specific times including minutes, among other things you can do with it. While its free and has no ads, it is not open source.

If open source is your thing, the closest option is Deluge. It has a scheduler plugin built in with a grid style view with one hour blocks if im not mistaken. You can choose whether it transfers at full speed, it transfers at reduced speeds, it only seeds or it pauses transfers during a specific hour of each day. But this acts more like a speed limiter where it pauses transfers by setting the speed limit to 0. I think.

I don't use a scheduler, and I use qBittorrent. qBittorent is awesome and opensource but it only has a really basic scheduler to limit speeds at specific times on specific days, not on a per day basis. It doesn't pause or stop transfers, you can only limit the speed to the minimum of 1KiBps. Therefore I do not recommend it.

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Edit: I just realized you didnt specify what platform you are planning to use your torrent client. If its on the Mac OS, I'm not sure there is a good option available. Someone else has to advice you then. Tixati and Deluge runs on Linux and Windows
I Want to use torrents at specific times basically between 11pm and 7 am.
Am looking for a torrent client I can set to download at these specific time interval.
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It would serve you well if you learn how to read before replying. OP is asking for a client with SCHEDULING. Scheduling is nearly non-existent on qbittorent, as I have explained above.

Why people on this forum can't be bothered to read throughly and carefully? Be it old members, mods and especially those with a tonne of stars. Maybe we should get rid of stars and badges so that many members wake up instead of being so full of themselves.
 
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If you want a really advanced scheduler, Tixati is the only one out there that does it I believe. Its the only client that allows you to start and stop at specific times including minutes, among other things you can do with it. While its free and has no ads, it is not open source.

If open source is your thing, the closest option is Deluge. It has a scheduler plugin built in with a grid style view with one hour blocks if im not mistaken. You can choose whether it transfers at full speed, it transfers at reduced speeds, it only seeds or it pauses transfers during a specific hour of each day. But this acts more like a speed limiter where it pauses transfers by setting the speed limit to 0. I think.

I don't use a scheduler, and I use qBittorrent. qBittorent is awesome and opensource but it only has a really basic scheduler to limit speeds at specific times on specific days, not on a per day basis. It doesn't pause or stop transfers, you can only limit the speed to the minimum of 1KiBps. Therefore I do not recommend it.

Reference:

Edit: I just realized you didnt specify what platform you are planning to use your torrent client. If its on the Mac OS, I'm not sure there is a good option available. Someone else has to advice you then. Tixati and Deluge runs on Linux and Windows
What of utorrent or transmission?
 

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It would serve you well if you learn how to read before replying. OP is asking for a client with SCHEDULING. Scheduling is nearly non-existent on qbittorent, as I have explained above.

Why people on this forum can't be bothered to read throughly and carefully? Be it old members, mods and especially those with a tonne of stars. Maybe we should get rid of stars and badges so that many members wake up instead of being so full of themselves.
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I saw a tutorial on YouTube using utorrent

 
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rutorrent has a scheduler. a pain to install on your linux computer. there are installers for linux, but they are scripts…. well the seedbox i use uses rutorrent and has a scheduler… and a seedbox is just a “computer” in a building…

what makes rutorrent difficult to install is “rTorrent is a text-based ncurses BitTorrent client based on libTorrent, great for usage on servers, while ruTorrent is a web front-end for rTorrent.”
(from https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/08/easy-rtorrent-rutorrent-installation.html )
 

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OP is asking for a client with SCHEDULING.
Alternative rate limits. You can set global ones in "Settings" in qBittorent. The only con is that it has no individual(per-torrent) limits, but that still what OP needs.
uTorrent had a decent full-fledged scheduler, but I stopped using it a long time ago in favor of qBittorent (ads broke the client on many occasions).
I believe Deluge has a similar scheduler as well.
 

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I too have moved on from uTorrent to qbittorrent. uTorrent was fine until they started filling it up with bloat that nobody asked for. Why is it so difficult for software developers to make lightweight programs that do what they're supposed to do and nothing else these days?
 
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