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