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Hi all,

I'm noticing a weird thing with the speeds in Sab. It's saying that it's downloading at around 5 MB/s but watching the status it is much slower than that. It will download maybe 1 MB/s according to the progress bar.

Other times it says around 200KB/s which seems way too slow. This is a fairly recent thing, but I can't put my finger on anything that's changed. Running 1.0.3

At the start of the post, the speedometer is off.
This is due to the postponing of par2 files.
The rest I don't know.
Release 1.1.0 will have quite some speed tweaks.

I'm having a very similar problem.

Also on 1.1.0?

Once I deleted my speed limit scheduling. It started working properly. But it still won't work after I reenable the speed limit scheduling.

How did you setup your speed schedule?

The screenshot should show everything you need

What does 700 or 500 mean? You need to set it in K/M/G notation. So 5M would be 5 megabytes/second.

@safihre, just a thought, but you should probably add a note that says K/M/G is required when people select Speedlimit from the dropdown.

This is what worked before I upgraded, but I did need to change it from 700 to 700K to get it to work.

That's right, it something that changed between 0.7.20 and 1.0.0
From the release notes:

Breaking change in API: speed-limit is now either a percentage or an absolute number

0-100 or anything with a '%' is a percentage
Absolute numbers no longer have an implicit "k"
Check third-party tools that set a speed for SABnzbd

Reading that back, it's not very clear that it also affects the Scheduler, but it does.