How to control download speed?

phys · 01-29-2009, 03:19 AM

My internet connection allows to download at 150 kb/second maximum. While downloading data from rapid mirrors, download speed reaches the maximum point and I can't browse any pages until download finishes. I want Slackware to share speed capacity among the applications requires internet connection so that I can browse other pages and use applications requires internet connection while downloading data.

guanx · 01-29-2009, 05:11 AM

wget --limit-rate=50k http://.../file.name
man wget

lftp has similar options. Please man lftp and search for limit-rate.

Perceptor · 01-29-2009, 05:14 AM

http://lartc.org/wondershaper/
http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle

slackass · 01-29-2009, 09:58 AM

Heres some more info about wget:

http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_wget.htm

phys · 01-29-2009, 03:05 PM

Thank you very much everyone.