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wget has a throttling option --limit-rate |
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how about : |
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1. keep a file containing the urls of the files you want to download. |
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(dllist) |
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2. start them at whatever time like: |
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wget --limit-rate=5k -i dllist |
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3. use at to run a script at 2.00 am which kills wget and restarts it |
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with no limit-rate option, the -c flag (to continue downloads) and the |
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same file list. |
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On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:46:23 -0400 |
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agl wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> Here in Australia the internet access plan I have is capped at 12GB |
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> downloads/month during "peak" hours and then an additional 24GB/month during |
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> "offpeak" hours, ie 2am - 9am. Rather than sit up until 2am to kick off a |
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> download, I was wondering if it was possible to somehow throttle a connection, |
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> or even a port, so that I could kick off the down load at say 11pm with the |
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> connection throttled to only a few KB/s and then at say 2am, a cron job will |
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> unthrottle it back to its full speed hence making most use of the offpeak time. |
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> I'm currently using gshield on top of iptables as my firewall. |
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> Any thoughts greatly appreciated. |
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> Andrew |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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Nick Rout |
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