larytet wrote: > It looks that my ISP started to traffic shape the connection. It works like > this: > - Using --limit-rate I specify maximum upload speed 75K (from 95K > available). This is the only application accessing Internet. > - For approximately 10 minutes the wget works just fine and pulls at 75K/s. > After that the rate drops to 30K/s. The drop is fast, looks like lights went > off. I did not check in the sniffer what is going on, but I suspect that I > will see dropped packets and TCP retransmissions. > - If I restart wget for the same file it returns to download at 70K/s for 10 > minutes more. > > This is not an issue with the server. I tried very fast servers including > pulling Eclipse from Amazon cloud, rapidshare etc. The servers which usually > saturated my downstream. > > I am looking for two possible approaches to the problem > - Is there a patch which allows to force retry if the rate drops below some > preset limit ? Any tips how such patch could be implemented (i probably could > the work) ? > - Replace ISP (so far I can not make them to fix the issue)
As far as I know, there's no current patch for that. Someone suggested addressing this in the past, but no one's working on it. I _may_ be misremembering, and the person who suggested fixing it may have supplied a patch. You might search the mail archives. -- Micah J. Cowan http://micah.cowan.name/
