There are some Internet Service Provider (ISP) that has time restrictions in downloading using BitTorrent. That means they stop throttling BitTorrent connections at specific hours of the day. Usually it’s from midnight (12AM) to early morning (7AM). Sometimes even starting at 2AM to 8AM. Imagine if you want to download something from torrent and you had to wake up at 2AM to start the download… If you’re a torrent freak that needs to download torrent everyday, it’s either you have to wake up at 2AM or stay up until 2AM everyday JUST to start the download process.

Luckily there are ways to automatically start and stop downloading torrent process so you can sleep early without having to wake up at early in the morning to do something that is so simple.

I will cover on how to schedule 3 most famous BitTorrent clients, uTorrent, Azureus and BitComet to start and stop downloading torrent.

Schedule Start and Stop Downloading on uTorrent
1. Go to Options -> Preferences (or press CTRL+P)
2. Go to Scheduler.
3. Check Enable Scheduler.
4. The first box starts at midnight (12AM). Each box represents 1 hour. You can move your mouse on top of the box to see what time it is. By default, everything is set at Full speed download. Clicking on the box twice will change the box to white color and it means to stop downloading. In the picture below, I’ve set it to start full download speed on Monday to Friday starting at 12AM to 8AM. I know, there’s a lot of clicking to be done but you only need to do it once.

Schedule Start and Stop Downloading on BitComet
1. Go to Options -> Preferences (or press CTRL+P)
2. Go to Scheduler.
3. Check Enable Scheduler.
4. Everything here is the same as in uTorrent.

Schedule Start and Stop Downloading on Azureus
This is slightly troublesome because the scheduler is not built-in into Azureus. It involves downloading the plugin and then configuring it.
1. Go to Plugins -> Installation Wizard…
2. Select By list from sourceforge.net and click Next
3. Look for Speed Scheduler, check it and click Next button.
4. Select Install the plugin(s) for you only and click Finish button. This is because some people installed the plugin for all users and the plugin doesn’t work.
Download and install Azureus Speed Scheduler
5. Click the Install button when Azureus Plugin Installer appears. Once finished downloading, click Close.
6. Go to Plugins -> Speed Scheduler.
7. Check Enable SpeedScheduler.
8. Click New Schedule button on the right.
9. The New Speed Schedule settings are pretty self explanatory. Below is my configuration I’ve set to start full download speed on Monday to Friday starting at 12AM to 8AM. The rest of the time the transfers will stay paused.

Enjoy automated BitTorrent downloading without disturbing your sleep time!

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