Hi
I know it is possible, Only question remains. How?
I have a slow connection to the internet so I want to use it to the maximum. But also so that when I want to download the new isos it will not disturb surfing for my wife at the same time.
I use usually wget to fech the files. I know I can set the limit rate to some value, but it is not efficent, because it leaves a fixed ammount of internet pipe ressource unused even when nobody needs the free rate
I want to limit the rate automatically. Whenever somebody (read: some process) want to use the internet pipe it should get the priority and when the pipe is free ( I mean not used by anybody else) then wget gets the full bandwidth to fech the isos for me.
I looked into "nice" value, but it has more effect on the processor load and does not seem to have effect on the internet pipe.
Has anybody some suggestions ?
By the way I have dsl connection using ppoe (and the devide is ppp0)
With a DSL connection it shouldn't make too much difference in any case. I'm no expert, but try a command line FTP client like ncftp. I've done massive downloads with that while surfing (on a 56K modem) and not noticed any decrease in my browser's performance.
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