[plug] Simple bandwidth throttling

[Matthew Lambie]

Good Morning all,

I sit on a 512/512 ADSL link at work, and have found that running a
daily "apt-get dist-upgrade" on my Ubuntu Hoary laptop saturates the
link to a point that SSH is unresponsive :(

Does anyone know of a simple app (if it's packaged for Ubuntu you get
cred++) that will allow me to throttle bandwidth in a similar way to
wget's "--limit=20k" capabilities? Perhaps I can pipe the dist-upgrade
command to it with a limit flag? 

Alternatively, could an iptables rule rate-limit connections to web/ftp
servers?

I don't need a full QoS setup - I just want to limit a single shell
command, and even then only sometimes.

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Thanks,

Matthew Lambie
Technical Director

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