Schedule Panel

Schedule shows how many simultaneous downloads are being taken. This number may vary for different hours during the day. E.g. if number of downloads is 0 between 10am and 11am no downloads will be started during that hour. If number of downloads is 10 between 8pm and 8am DM server will try to have 10 simultaneous downloads in any moment (if there are enough ordered files) during the night.
By varying number of parallel downloads during the day you choose bandwidth for DownloadMaster. Default settings are 5 downloads during the night (8pm to 8am) and 1 download during the day (8am to 8pm). You should adjust it according to traffic statistics of your Internet link.
Schedule can be changed manually by editing file schedule.ini. If you change a schedule with Administrator panel, it'll take effect as soon as it is saved on server by 'SAVE' button. If you change it manually, you'll need to restart server.

Schedule panel is consisted of two parts. Upper half shows graphic display of the schedule. Every bar represents one hour during the day. First one is for 0-1, second for 1-2 and so on. This display will scale automatically.
Below the bars there is an array of number fields that show number of simultaneous downloads during each hour. It can be edited right there.Below these number fields are numbers from 0 to 23 that tell for which hour is that setting. E.g. number 17 means upper bar shows number of simultaneous downloads between 17:00 and 18:00.

Setting ranges

It is tedious work to adjust the schedule manually. If you want to set range of hours (e.g. from 9 to 17) to same value (e.g. 3) you can use 'Set range' button. Enter 9 in 'From' field, 17 in 'to' field and 3 in 'set downloads' field and then press 'Set range' button.

 

Load and Save

When you select this panel server is contacted and schedule is loaded. You can change values as you like. When you're satisfied you should press 'SAVE' button to update the schedule on server. If you want to revert to the schedule that is stored on the server you should use 'LOAD' button.