Limiting my own network throughput

[Paul O'Malley]

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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
there is a program called trickle for userland downloading - it is not
the most accurate thing in the world (I just tested it with a crude
command line and it was restricting - I asked for 4kbs but it delivered
10kbs well below the 200kbs I have most of the time but) it can limit
the bandwidth consumption

P.

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