There already exists a similar option called --limit-rate. It's documented in the man and info pages for Wget.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Harvey Pwca <harveyp...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Sir/Madam; > > I have an idea for a new wget option. > > Allow the user to specify a download speed for the item(s) being retrieved. > The speed could be set in Bytes (B), Kilobytes (K), or Megabytes (M) > depending upon the bandwidth available to the user. > > While it is possible to make wget become "aware" of the bandwidth available > —and what is being used by other applications— I think this would not be a > good idea since it removes from the user the ability to prioritize their > applications usage of the bandwidth. Just allow the user to state what > bandwidth wget should use. > > Thank you. > -- Thanking You, Darshit Shah
