Limiting my own network throughput

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 11:12 +0100, Paul O'Malley wrote:

> 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

I Installed it and gave it a try, but it doesn't seem to be what I want.
It seems to run off the command line and I need something that will
shape what synaptic does when I click the update icon.

But thanks for making the effort

alan