Bandwidth control in Gnu/Linux with trickle
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.
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