Feature Request: Pause/Resume network activity #1958

1. 
   Azulan commented at 7:21 am on October 25, 2012: none

   Sometimes, I want to play a game or watch an online video on my machine, and I find that often times the upload bandwidth being used by bitcoin can cause latency or other issues with these activities. I request a way to pause and resume all bitcoin related network traffic, preferably through the gui. Perhaps it can have an optional time component so that it restart automatically after an hour or so, so that the client is not wasting time if forgotten about. I think that this option would be preferable to having to quit the program and then restart it, which can take up quite some time and a great deal of disk activity by reloading the block chain.Thank you.
2. 
   Azulan commented at 7:06 am on October 26, 2012: none

   This is probably related to issue #273.
3. 
   laanwj commented at 7:25 am on October 26, 2012: member

   It’s related, but much easier to implement.

   I don’t see bandwidth throttling coming any time soon, but a toggle to stop/restart networking could be implemented with minimal impact on the core (and would also be useful for testing, I suppose).

4. 
   jonasschnelli commented at 9:18 am on March 14, 2015: contributor

   related to #5314
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   jonasschnelli commented at 1:54 pm on July 6, 2016: contributor

   Is implemented in #5314 but needs update. In the “paused” mode, we should still broadcast transaction and maybe warn the user if he has paused over a couple of possible blocks.
6. 
   jonasschnelli commented at 10:18 am on November 11, 2016: contributor

   Closing, solved by #8996.
7. jonasschnelli closed this on Nov 11, 2016

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