Limiting my own network throughput

[Gabriel M Dragffy]

hey maybe the most simple way for you to control the bandwidth usage of
apt is to alter your sources.list file and change the mirror location to
a country
 further away. For example I am in China so I use cn.ubuntu.com, but if
I change to uk.ubuntu.com then my updates come through much more slowly.
I think that this is the best way for you since it is also the simplest
way.



On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:04 +0200, 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
> 
> 
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