Since it's too quiet over in yonder iphone thread, thought I'd post my suggestions.
Every time the bittorrent client restarts it has to rescan the torrents in the Q to figure out which pieces it has already downloaded.
On a 60Gb torrent, it takes over an hour to 'verify' the torrent, & that's with a torrent completion of <10%
I fully expect this to get longer as the torrent gets closer to completion.
I wouldn't care, but it holds up all other torrents until it has verified. Not to mention the resource tax on the LS-CHLs CPU, Disk & Network speeds whilst it verifies.
My first suggestion would be to hold off on the verification process on torrents until that particular torrent has been manually started, THEN verify.
That would only solve the problem for all other torrents though, if I wanted to start the large torrent I would still have to wait until it is verified.
So, my second suggestion would be to be able to selectively download files within a torrent, to allow large downloads to be selectively downloaded, so I could say, select 3 files at 1 gb each, download them, copy & delete the completed files, start the torrent again, choosing the next set of 3 files.
Also, is there any point in asking for feature updates? Given it seems to have some sort of 'official' bittorrent certification judging by the bittorrent logo. I guess what I'm asking is: Is it a client provided by Bittorrent with a Buffalo badge, or a set of specs that Buffalo adhere to?
Either way, what are the implications for feature requests rather than just bugfixes? Likely, not likely or don't know?
Only reason I ask is that I've been looking at the Popcorn Hour A110 as a like for like replacement for the LS-CHL, I can ignore the lack of gigabit ethernet in exchange for some much needed stability.