Robins Tharakan wrote:
>
> hi guys,
>
> for once, my system is working fine, and this question is only for info
> sake..! ;)
>
> i have a modem(56k).. bandwidth is limited(obviously..!)
>
> can i somehow place any download, to a "low priority" task... so that my
> browsing can go on in the meanwhile ?? i mean, does any ISP in delhi
> provide such "priority" measures ??
What you are looking for is QOS (Quality of service) which unfortunately
is not supported in the usual distro's. It is usually present in a RTOS
(Real Time OS).
Other than that when two applications are requesting data the throughput
gets divided equally over time. The problem with surfing is that you
usually end up sending small requests over time and the throughput
doesnt get time to balance out. This causes your exteneded period of
download to get higher bandwidth. Ofcourse if you start two downloads
you will notice that they start using the same amount of bandwidth after
sometime - though initially the first one will be consuming a larger
share of the bandwidth.
Mithun
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