I just found a nice little tool that allows you to set the maximum download/upload rates that an application should use. This is particularly useful to me as I have problems when downloading files with DonwThemAll in Firefox which does not provide any means of controlling the bandwidth consumption. As a result I often find my connection being completely taken over by the download an thus I am unable to do other things on the Internet at the same time.
The application I am talking about is called trickle and can be easily downloaded on debian-based machines with apt-get install trickle.
To start Firefox with a limit to the amount of bandwidth it consumes all you have to do is type in the command line
trickle -d 200 firefox
this would start Firefox with a download limit of 200KB/s. See trickle manual for more options. It must be noted that this value cannot be changed in real time.
Filed under: HowTos | Tagged: bandwidth control, gnu/linux, trickle
ohh wonderful, it exactly solves my problem (im using downthemall and my brother says me every 20 minutes that i have to limit the download).
tillz
Wow!!!
have been searching for something like this:)
Thanks