Thanks! Might be worth a try. On 3/5/07, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, maning sambale wrote: > > > > There is a package available called cron-apt which might be better than > > > the > > > graphical update manager for this. It doesn't need you to be logged in to > > > download packages and it can start itself when the network comes up if > > > you're on say, a dialup connection. > > > > Can you limit the bandwidth size for this kind of download set-up? I > > can't use firefox anymore when downloading packages on my dial-up > > connection. > > I'm not aware of a particularly simple method. > > Linux can do this sort of thing though. I think wondershaper might be a > tool to look at, though I have never done it myself. > > http://lartc.org/wondershaper/ > http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.cookbook.ultimate-tc.html > > It seems to be packaged in Ubuntu. > > Gavin > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >
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