On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:49:52PM +0100, Mark wrote: > Hello all, > > I was hoping you may have an idea what to use for the following > problem: > > At work we have a 1Mbit line download and upload. But still > sometimes people here try to download 350Mb or more over that little > tiny wire. > > We have no started tracking (more like hunting) people down who do > those hefty downloads because while they are downloading, the rest > of the company can hardly get some work done. > > Now we are the ones who start large downloads in the evening, > sometimes even doing them at home for the people at work. > > I was hoping that there are programs/webinterfaces out there that > can take this load off of our shoulders and download things during > the night? >
I haven't tried any of the download managers so perhaps they solve the problem. If it doesn't, what about implementing a centralized wget list? If user's can append a url to have wget get, then you can have a script to run wget -c -i that_list with the approriate rate-limit for the time of day. At 6 pm, remove the limit, during the day have a low limit. I wonder if there's an io scheduler where one can renice a download? When the bandwidth is free, go for it, but be pre-emptable. Perhaps that's what traffic shaping is, I don't know. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
