Re: downloads too fast, hogging whole modem line
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:58:24AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to comp.os.linux.networking as well.
>
> My downloads are too fast, hogging the whole modem line. Is there any
> way to slow them down so I can read web pages at the same time?
>
> In particular, assume the program has no brakes itself, and we must
> some how nice(1) its portion of the bandwidth.
>
> I posted 'any "nice" for ppp line competition? [Was: how do I slow down noffle?]'
> in comp.protocols.ppp, news.software.readers but they told me to go
> post elsewhere.
>
> I can only read google for the last few minutes of a call now.
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