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Time-controlled Downloading
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TheHolyDevil Some People have a limit on their internet connection, but a time frame ofthen somewhere in the night, where traffic isnt counted. Also some people want to only download in the night, because when they download a game during day it could eat up most of the bandwidth needed for other connections. (This goes of course along with the ability in the other whish to limit bandwidth) An automated start and stop at these times would make it easier to controll the traffic and limit it to just the set time frame.
Thanks for reading and have a nice day, TheHolyDevil
jjj123456 After resisting GOG Galaxy for all this time, I built a new computer. Figured I would use Galaxy to re-install my various games as convenient, at times where they don't cripple my rural internet. Why isn't there any scheduling mechanism? This is literally the only reason I would put Galaxy in place - to manage installs/updates in a sensible way. What the heck, GOG? Steam does this, it should be core functionality.
aengelke Would really appreciate this. I have a capped limit of data available during the day and a different cap from midnight until 07:00. This would really help and also potentially your sales as one then wouldn't have to wait until the new month for your cap to reset and I can then download games more frequently. You can do it guys!
hesoos Really need it...
705Stu yes this would be very helpful. Doesn't hit against cap between 2:00 and 8 am. This is international thing, not US where unlimited appears the norm..
kingkeith this would be great, I currently have to set all the newer (big download size) games to not update automatically, when what I really want is for updates to only happen between midnight and 8 am ;) (I live in the middle of the countryside, and only have a mobile internet connection)
StormOnStream Much needed feature.
poitter I want this as well, I'm stuck for months at a time using limited satellite data, off peak on this is limited but in that time i can pretty much download as much as i want, unfortunately I'm sleeping during this time due to long work hours and can't stay up late enough to initiate the downloads.
ceedeeuuone I have satellite internet and would like this feature.
ZombiRandall I would love something like this since my max download speed is around 5 Mbps.
LoganWulf Would love to have that option, something like Steam offers since ages
rhopalies As a satellite user too, I would be very, very interested!
Satellite user, but also GOG lover :)
koenmtb1 Would be really helpful...
jonowee I used to have unmetered downloads during off-peak periods, but now my current ISP is 50:50 split of the monthly data allowance both metered between peak that we use for browsing and content streaming and off peak.
GOG, if you add this feature, please allow half an hour steps to start and stop downloads because my current ISP are scummy with their off-peak period 02:30-08:30 that either oversteps or undercuts automatic download timers that work off the nearest hours.
Thanks in advance CD Projekt.
RogueFactor It would be amazing to automate downloads instead of staying up until 1am just to initialize a download. Ditto to what rdswart said, you can lose a lot of bandwidth to one game.
benceg +1
DalekMan It might also be nice to have the option to set auto-update schedules differently for different games. For example, having the single-player games auto-update only at night, while that one specific multiplayer game you play a lot auto-updates as soon as you're not playing it.
rdswart Often Blow my bandwith if I don't wake up in time to pause the gog downloader...lets get a set automatic start and stop time scheduler
fr33kSh0w2012 I agree with Grasshopper on this one they tend to shape our connections in Australia too sometimes even CUTTING THE INTERNET OFF IF THEY THINK you are ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADING something it's Terrible!
Terrapun An option to automatically shut down the computer once scheduled downloads are complete might also be nice. Just a thought.
Grasshopper2000 This will really be a great addition to Galaxy.
Here in South Africa, a lot of ISP's tend to throttle download speeds during the day, making it nearly impossible to download a program and browse the internet at the same time.
At night, usually between 23:00 - 05:00, download speeds are increased (in my experience, at least) and do not count towards your internet cap. Time-controlled downloading will enable a lot of people to take advantage of this and will contribute to making the idea of digital downloads more appealing.
bootx Deluge and some other download programs have a "scheduler" setting that allows you to set which hours of the day you'd like to utilize for downloading. This is a perfect implementation as far as I'm concerned, and I'd love to see it in Galaxy.
As it stands, the alternative is to create a task in the Windows scheduler to run Galaxy at a certain time, and then create a batch file that closes Galaxy, and then create another task to run the batch file at a certain time.
And if you want to run Galaxy at any other time of the day, you have to turn off auto-updating (and pause any active downloads I guess), and then reactivate it and un-pause the download when you're done.
This is less than ideal.
Nephyx As a satellite user, +1
moonbeam:) This would be really very nice indeed :)
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