Limiting my own network throughput

[Alan McKinnon]

Hi,

Here at work we have a fairly fat network pipe, shared amongst 100+
people. The local BOFH would prefer it if I didn't max out the pipe with
daily updates :-) He's a friend and doesn't want micro-manage the
network so he trusts me to do the right thing  .

I can live with updates coming through at 2kB/sec or thereabouts and
mail/web coming through at full speed. What would be the easiest way to
implement this kind of network throttling where it's still under my
control?

alan