Re: download decelerator

2003-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:39:18PM -0700, al davis wrote: > Is there a way to slow down a particular download to improve the > performance for whatever else I might be doing on the net? wget has --limit-rate, see man page[1] for details. Since you'

Re: download decelerator

2003-03-18 Thread John
as does downloader for x apt-get install d4x or http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ cheers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:39:18 -0700, al davis wrote: With this discussion on a download accelerator ... What I really need is the opposite. I have a full time connection. The p

Re: download decelerator

2003-03-18 Thread csj
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:39:18 -0700, al davis wrote: > > With this discussion on a download accelerator ... > > What I really need is the opposite. I have a full time > connection. The problem is that when I download something > large, like a CD image, other activity slows down, often to the > p

Re: download decelerator

2003-03-17 Thread David Lloyd
Rameth, > again, sorry I just could not help myself. :) > > cheers I'd offer my 28.8K connection which is even better! Seriously though you could look at: * basic traffic shaping [search for the Advanced Routing HOWTO] * if you're using a newer version of wget, it has a "bandwidth limit

Re: download decelerator

2003-03-17 Thread John
Sorry, i could not resist. How about I swap your connection for my 56k modem, guaranteed to slow all connections down again, sorry I just could not help myself. :) cheers al davis wrote: With this discussion on a download accelerator ... What I really need is the opposite. I have a full ti

download decelerator

2003-03-17 Thread al davis
With this discussion on a download accelerator ... What I really need is the opposite. I have a full time connection. The problem is that when I download something large, like a CD image, other activity slows down, often to the point of being unusable. Is there a way to slow down a particul