Gnome 2.2

[greenfly at greenfly.net]

If you have a reasonably new version of wget (it looks like 1.8.2 is the version
you need), you can limit its download rate.   The argument is --limit-rate and
I'll go ahead and post the relevant part of the wget manpage here:

=====snip=====
--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 kind of thing is useful when, for whatever reason, you 
	don't want Wget to consume the entire evailable bandwidth.
 
	Note that Wget implementeds the limiting by sleeping the appropriate 
	amount of time after a network read that took less time than specified 
	by the rate. Eventually this strategy causes the TCP transfer to slow 
	down to approximately the specified rate. However, it takes some time 
	for this balance to be achieved, so don't be surprised if limiting the 
	rate doesn't work with very small files. Also, the "sleeping" strategy 
	will misfire when an extremely small bandwidth, say less than 1.5KB/s, 
	is specified. 
=====snip=====

So, something along the lines of: 
wget -r --limit-rate=4k ftp://ftp.foo.com/bar/baz/quux/gnome2.2/

would grab that directory recursively for you, downloading at 4kb/s

Hope this helps,
Kyle


 
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:07:28PM -0800, Warren Raquel wrote: 
> Has anyone tried out Gnome 2.2 yet? Anyone know of an rsync repository out 
> there where I can download it from for RedHat 8.0 or perhaps tell me how to 
> easily (not the word 'easily') limit the bandwidth on ncftp or something of 
> the like? Thanks.