On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:58:24AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has been posted to comp.os.linux.networking as well. > > My downloads are too fast, hogging the whole modem line. Is there any > way to slow them down so I can read web pages at the same time? > > In particular, assume the program has no brakes itself, and we must > some how nice(1) its portion of the bandwidth. > > I posted 'any "nice" for ppp line competition? [Was: how do I slow down noffle?]' > in comp.protocols.ppp, news.software.readers but they told me to go > post elsewhere. > > I can only read google for the last few minutes of a call now.
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