Answered my own question by reading a but further. Most of my torrents are indeed relatively small, so this should be a good solution. First attempted download with new libtorrent proceeding in a normal fashion. I'll look forward to further tweaks down the road. Many thanks!

Can I update to the new libtorrent as an alternative solution?

Recently, when I add a new torrent and start a download, the download will begin and ramp up towards my limiting threshold speed. But within a few tenths of a percent of the download complete, the download speed begins to step down, and after a few steps reaches zero. Any other uploads that may have...

Deluge 1.3.1 was running with a moderate list of seeding and queued torrents listed when my Windows 7 laptop blue screened. When everything came back up, the torrent list was empty. Is there a way to recover the list of torrents? Perhaps it's too much to ask, but recovering the stats would be nice a...