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Completely disable upload speed #160

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opened 2026-02-21 14:54:46 -05:00 by deekerman · 12 comments

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Originally created by @Decme on GitHub (Oct 21, 2012).

Setting the upload speed limit to 0 always resets it to 1. It would be sometimes useful to be able to set it to 0 (Transmission allows this)

Originally created by @Decme on GitHub (Oct 21, 2012). Setting the upload speed limit to 0 always resets it to 1. It would be sometimes useful to be able to set it to 0 (Transmission allows this)

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@sircod commented on GitHub (Oct 21, 2012):

By setting it to 0, do you want to disable the upload limit, or disable uploading entirely? Some amount of uploading is needed just as overhead (not sure if this is included in the limit).

@sircod commented on GitHub (Oct 21, 2012): By setting it to 0, do you want to disable the upload limit, or disable uploading entirely? Some amount of uploading is needed just as overhead (not sure if this is included in the limit).

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@Decme commented on GitHub (Oct 22, 2012):

I want to be able to disable uploading entirely.

With qBittorrent the overhead is not included in the upload/download limits unless you check "Apply rate limit to transport overhead", which is unchecked by default.

@Decme commented on GitHub (Oct 22, 2012): I want to be able to disable uploading entirely. With qBittorrent the overhead is not included in the upload/download limits unless you check "Apply rate limit to transport overhead", which is unchecked by default.

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@slacka commented on GitHub (Oct 28, 2012):

Having an upload limit makes perfect sense for people with asymmetric connections like ADSL. However, allowing people to selfishly download without contributing back defeats the purpose of the bit torrent protocol and is bad for the health of the swam. qBittorrent should not add this option to disable uploading entirely.

@slacka commented on GitHub (Oct 28, 2012): Having an upload limit makes perfect sense for people with asymmetric connections like ADSL. However, allowing people to selfishly download without contributing back defeats the purpose of the bit torrent protocol and is bad for the health of the swam. qBittorrent should not add this option to disable uploading entirely.

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@Decme commented on GitHub (Oct 28, 2012):

Yes it should. I sometimes don't want to seed until I have downloaded 100% of the file.

I'm going to have to consider going over to using Transmission as it allows setting the upload speed to zero.

@Decme commented on GitHub (Oct 28, 2012): Yes it should. I sometimes don't want to seed until I have downloaded 100% of the file. I'm going to have to consider going over to using Transmission as it allows setting the upload speed to zero.

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@slacka commented on GitHub (Oct 28, 2012):

You have explained what you want, but not why this is a useful feature.

@slacka commented on GitHub (Oct 28, 2012): You have explained what you want, but not why this is a useful feature.

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@Decme commented on GitHub (Nov 1, 2012):

It would be a useful feature to me, and probably to others. I don't see what part you're not understanding.

@Decme commented on GitHub (Nov 1, 2012): It would be a useful feature to me, and probably to others. I don't see what part you're not understanding.

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@ghost commented on GitHub (Jan 20, 2013):

Being able to set upload to '1KB/s' is almost like setting it to '0KB/s'.

You should consider adding this feature just for the moaning myrtles ;p

@slacka I totally agree with your point 'allowing people to selfishly download without contributing back defeats the purpose of the bit torrent protocol and is bad for the health of the swam' however, as I said 1 ~= 0.

@ghost commented on GitHub (Jan 20, 2013): Being able to set upload to '1KB/s' is almost like setting it to '0KB/s'. You should consider adding this feature just for the moaning myrtles ;p @slacka I totally agree with your point 'allowing people to selfishly download without contributing back defeats the purpose of the bit torrent protocol and is bad for the health of the swam' however, as I said 1 ~= 0.

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@TerrificInToronto commented on GitHub (Jun 28, 2014):

Ok. Is it possible to set the U/L Speed limit so that my Non-Asymetric line can handle the workload? I currently have a link that handles 700KB/sec D/L and 70 KB/Sec UPload, but unless I can throttle the pportion of the swarm, some Torrent files take the whole uplink, This in turn trips the bandwidth throttling, and the ISP Throttles the D/L speed to 50KB/s .... Once this starts, then I have to reset everything, wait approx 10 minutes, try again. back to 700KB/S... Currently attempt to set total U/L as 1/10 of D/L Availability but QBT saturates the line (depending on content availability)

@TerrificInToronto commented on GitHub (Jun 28, 2014): Ok. Is it possible to set the U/L Speed limit so that my Non-Asymetric line can handle the workload? I currently have a link that handles 700KB/sec D/L and 70 KB/Sec UPload, but unless I can throttle the pportion of the swarm, some Torrent files take the whole uplink, This in turn trips the bandwidth throttling, and the ISP Throttles the D/L speed to 50KB/s .... Once this starts, then I have to reset everything, wait approx 10 minutes, try again. back to 700KB/S... Currently attempt to set total U/L as 1/10 of D/L Availability but QBT saturates the line (depending on content availability)

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@slrslr commented on GitHub (Aug 2, 2017):

I think these issues may be related:
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/3461
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/6020

@slrslr commented on GitHub (Aug 2, 2017): I think these issues may be related: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/3461 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/6020

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@MPW1412 commented on GitHub (Mar 31, 2018):

There is an upload limitation functionality. Zero upload doesn't make sense.

Let's close this.

@MPW1412 commented on GitHub (Mar 31, 2018): There is an upload limitation functionality. Zero upload doesn't make sense. Let's close this.

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@FranciscoPombal commented on GitHub (Feb 19, 2020):

I want to be able to disable uploading entirely.

With qBittorrent the overhead is not included in the upload/download limits unless you check "Apply rate limit to transport overhead", which is unchecked by default.

You need at least some upload bandwidth excluding the transport overhead for anything to work at all...

@FranciscoPombal commented on GitHub (Feb 19, 2020): > I want to be able to disable uploading entirely. > > With qBittorrent the overhead is not included in the upload/download limits unless you check "Apply rate limit to transport overhead", which is unchecked by default. You need at least some upload bandwidth excluding the transport overhead for anything to work at all...

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@slrslr commented on GitHub (Feb 28, 2020):

You need at least some upload bandwidth excluding the transport overhead for anything to work at all...

I do not know why, but what about the download mutting of particular torrent?

I have torrent which share 99% of the data with other torrent. Being able to set 0KB/s download for this "99%" torrent will allow me not to damage my "100%" torrent and at same time being able to seed/upload data for this "99%" torrent.

@slrslr commented on GitHub (Feb 28, 2020): > You need at least some upload bandwidth excluding the transport overhead for anything to work at all... I do not know why, but what about the download mutting of particular torrent? I have torrent which share 99% of the data with other torrent. Being able to set 0KB/s download for this "99%" torrent will allow me not to damage my "100%" torrent and at same time being able to seed/upload data for this "99%" torrent.

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