On 10/9/07, Jim Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Micah Cowan wrote: > > > As to whether or not it will be included in mainline Wget, that depends > > on the answer to your question, "does this seem like something others of > > you could use?" I, personally, wouldn't find it very useful (I rarely > > use even --limit-rate), so I'd be interested in knowing who would. I > > suspect that it may well be the case that most folks who have need of > > - --limit-rate will find your version handy, but I want to hear from > > them. :) > > I would appreciate and have use for such an option. We often access > instruments in remote locations (think a tiny island in the Aleutians) > where we share bandwidth with other organizations. As the other > organizations are often involved in health and safety (Coast Guard, > Alaska Tsunami Warning Center, etc.) we can not dominate the bandwidth. > While --limit-rate might well be preferred in specific cases, having a > --limit-percent option available as well would be nice.
[private response to limit list clutter] Cool. Good to hear of another user. See the "Works For Me" version (patch) in the other message. Note though that my patch *does* dominate the bandwidth for about 15 seconds to measure the available bandwidth before it falls back. On my network, it seemed to take a few seconds before enough bytes were transferred to get a reasonable measure. -- Best Regards. Tony
