On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, wes wrote:
>
>> Yes, the clinic is this Sunday, but FreeGeek's pipe isn't all that big. A
>> typical home cable or DSL connection will bring the file to you in a few
>> hours. Wget even supports resuming interrupted transfers.
>
> wes,
>
> I thought of sucking it down here on the DSL line, but that slows
> everything while it's working. Perhaps I'll start it using shell overnight.
>
>
Manual page wget(1) line 394
--limit-rate=amount
Limit the download speed to amount bytes per second. Amount may be
expressed in bytes, kilobytes with the k suffix, or megabytes with
the m suffix. For example, --limit-rate=20k will limit the
retrieval rate to 20KB/s. This is useful when, for whatever
reason, you don't want Wget to consume the entire available
bandwidth.
Start wget, get a feel for how fast it can go, then cut that in half
or so. having your pipe saturated makes everything unbearable.
having it under heavy use makes things slower, but I find it very
tolerable. drop it to 1/4 or so and you hardly notice - it just kinda
blends in with the normal erratic performance of the net.
--
Carl K
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