Speed limit and pause mode

Speed limit and pause mode

JDownloader provides two settings which are both doing a similar thing: Limiting your max. download speed according to your preference.

Whenever a speed limit is active and downloads are running, you will see a red line in the speed graph in the top right corner:

Explanation of the two different speed limit settings:

1. Pause mode
In the top left corner you will find a pause symbol right next to the play symbol:

When downloads are running and you press this button, this will happen:

• A temporary speed limit will be active (see speedlimit setting in point 2. later on)
• No new downloads will be started
• JDownloader will stop once all currently running downloads have been completed

While pause mode is active, you can adjust the pause-mode speed in the top right corner by doing a right click inside the speed graph.
Alternatively this can be done in the bottom right corner, if you've enabled quick settings before, more info about quick settings see this article.
Notes:

• The limit you set for pause mode and the limit you set when enabling/disabling a "normal" speed limit are two different values!
• Pause mode will automatically be disabled if you restart JD, if all downloads are finished or if download more is stopped by you via stop button 

Typical use cases:

• You want to temporarily limit the download speed
• You want to let JD finish all currently running downloads without starting new ones
• You got running downloads of large files that cannot be resumed and you do not want to lose your download progress

In myjdownloader, you can adjust the pause speed under Settings --> Advanced Settings --> GeneralSettings pause speed

2. Speed limit | permanent speed limit vs pause mode
Read this article.

Compared to pause mode, the speed limit is very simple:

• Limits global speed to your defined max speed value
• Once the global speed limit is enabled, the speed limit value will become adjustable.
• Enabled speed mode is remembered when downloads are complete or JD is restarted

Typical use case:
You want to permanently leave some bandwidth for other network applications or other users in your network

In the myjdownloader webinterface, you will find this setting under Settings --> Speed Limit