Re: Background downloading service

You might want to have a look at the command line utility wget. It supports bandwidth limiting via the --limit-rate switch.

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Re^2: Background downloading service by kevin_i_orourke (Friar) on Aug 29, 2006 at 13:26 UTC
I've used wget a lot for other things, the problem here is that you set the bandwidth limit at the beginning and can't change it later. In my case I could be partway through a huge (10 hours or so) download and notice that it's time to reduce bandwidth usage. Kevin O'Rourke	[reply]
Re^3: Background downloading service by shmem (Chancellor) on Aug 29, 2006 at 13:35 UTC
wget also supports resuming partial downloads - if the server supports that, too. One could check if that is the case on startup of a session, then there should be no problem interrupting and re-starting later, if it's necessary. --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply]