To avoid my wife throttling me, can anyone tell me how to tell apt-get to throttle its bandwidth usage?
Well, I use apt-proxy which acts as a caching proxy, and uses wget to download the packages. Edit the config file (/etc/apt-proxy/apt-proxy.conf) and add --limit-rate=4k (or whatever speed you want to limit to) to the WGET variable. Works well for me even on modem (can still browse file while doing update/upgrade).
Daniel
