How To – Automate your Torrent Downloads
I have (and many of my friends too) a broadband plan that allows free usage at a specific part of the day, or in my case, the earliest part of the early morning. After having grown tired of waking up at 2 A.M (you read that right) to download my torrents, I thought of finding a solution to automating this whole download process, and I did find a small but very useful utility to do this (without wasting power!). Let me walk you through the whole process of setting up automatic torrent download 
Though this tutorial primarily focusses on users of μTorrent, competing BitTorrent clients like Azureus or BitComet may have their own schedulers, which might be just as easy to configure.
Open μTorrent’s preferences dialog by clicking on Options -> Preferences. Then select Scheduler. Enable it and then set up μT to download/seed only during specific hours of the day. Each block represents an hour and you could see that for all days of the week, I’ve set my μT to download only from 2 AM to 8AM. Apply the settings and you’re done with the first step. Note: What if you wanted to download something at some other time of the day? Simple. Add the torrent and then right-click on it and click on Force Start.
Next comes WOSB (Find the download link at the end of the post). Start it up and choose the date and time to wake up your computer. The other options in the main window are just as self-explanatory and you can play around with them to get your configuration right. Once you’re done, select Switch to tray and finally click on Start. Then put your computer in Sleep mode and sleep tight. Happy downloading 
Download WOSB (Wake Up Standby Mode & Hibernation)
Version 1.7.14.0
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Nice one macha..It was literally a headache..now onwards it wont be..
Great! WOSB is groovy. I’ve been using the uTorrent scheduler to schedule my hefty movie-softs downloads but’ve not been switching the PC to sleep mode. Well WOSB serves as a great supplement! However i’ve changed my BB plan to unlimited and it simply makes life easy
@nlvraghavendra: Hey I’m following your blog now, good going. Looks like more and more engineering grads are getting in to blogging. Hope I was some small part of an inspiration for you getting into it!
@Pras: Of course you did! I always wanted to create a repertoire for myself to put forward my experiences and to have a memoir