Can torrents still download while computer is asleep

Same with peripheral lights if they're bothersome. If your PC or laptop sleeps by itself due to lack of input, check your power options in Control Panel. Sickle View Profile View Posts.

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Wiki User. When your computer goes in sleep mode, all components that are unnecessary for its operation, such as a graphic card or a network card, are turned off, excluding the RAM. If you want to download a torrent over a long period of time, either pause it and resume it later or turn off the display and leave it on overnight, making sure it will not overheat.

When the MacBook is closed, it is put in sleep mode which closes the internet connection. Bittorrent will continue to work in the background. Most of these type program use few resources. Sleep mode is a low power standby mode.

No processes are taking place while in sleep mode. If it has been completely shut down and it's off then it cannot download files, but if it's in sleep mode then it can still download fies. It becomes part of a program that runs automattically,even in sleep mode. In Windows, go to the control panel, click on power options. On the left click on "Change when the computer sleeps", then change all of the options to "never". Now your computer shouldn't sleep.

On Macs and Linux, you can download a software called Caffeine that prevents your computer from sleeping. NO, you can not turn your computer off when downloading anything.

If you turn the computer off then everything shuts down also. It will also stop downloading if you put the computer to sleep. You can just put the display to sleep and it will still download. Disable your screen saver, if you use one, and disable any "sleep" function if you use one. You cant download it. It is fine. Power is still running through your computer and your iPod is still plugged in, so it wil continue to receive the electricity.

Being on the computer makes no difference. You can sleep after any activity if you wish. I don't exactly know why they do that, but I know how to continue the download. This should continue the download. Just slide it and in a few seconds it will turn off. Wasps do not sleep and they do not fly after dark. At night, wasps will continue to maintain the nest. It takes less time to resume computer from sleep mode then to boot it up. When you senf our computer in the sleep mode you can keep your programs open, and after you resume the system you have all your programs already running.

You know that your computer is in sleep mode when the screen is dark and all you see is your screen saver. There will not be any sounds coming from the computer either. Your mac will keep active, downloads will go on even when the lid is closed. Step 5: If you can estimate the time your download will take which is difficult due to many factors involved , you can set the time you want this app to keep the laptop active and then it will shutdown automatically thereafter.

Please remember that you will have to change settings in Insomnia X whenever you will need to keep downloads active, so once you restart, these settings will not hold.

Graced with all these devices, connect each of them to your Mac laptop and ensure they are properly functioning. Once you close the lid when downloads are active, a Mac laptop will turn to the external display leaving all computing tasks active including the download jobs. To revert back to normal display usage; open its lid and it will return back to its monitor for Mac Os For earlier versions, you just need to unplug the display, close and open it.

You will be good to go. The tips given above should help you keep your big download jobs active even in your absence or when your lid is closed. While you would want to keep downloads active when you are away, please ensure to take control of heating. It is very saddening to return or wake up when you have actually fried your laptop simply because you wanted to keep your downloads active.

On my Laptop after I chose Sleep when I am not using it, it does automatically update while I am away from the computer and I never set it up to do this.