How to slow down internet connection?












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I have a very large download to perform which is low priority.



Can I throttle back the networking speed of my Ubuntu 18.10 so this download does not bog down my connection which is shared with other computers?



I am on a home wifi connection.



I can use a browser to perform this download or wget, etc... yet do not see such a setting.










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    I have a very large download to perform which is low priority.



    Can I throttle back the networking speed of my Ubuntu 18.10 so this download does not bog down my connection which is shared with other computers?



    I am on a home wifi connection.



    I can use a browser to perform this download or wget, etc... yet do not see such a setting.










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      I have a very large download to perform which is low priority.



      Can I throttle back the networking speed of my Ubuntu 18.10 so this download does not bog down my connection which is shared with other computers?



      I am on a home wifi connection.



      I can use a browser to perform this download or wget, etc... yet do not see such a setting.










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      I have a very large download to perform which is low priority.



      Can I throttle back the networking speed of my Ubuntu 18.10 so this download does not bog down my connection which is shared with other computers?



      I am on a home wifi connection.



      I can use a browser to perform this download or wget, etc... yet do not see such a setting.







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          wget has --limit-rate option for limiting the download speed; from man wget:




          --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.



          This option allows the use of decimal numbers, usually in conjunction with power suffixes; for example, --limit-rate=2.5k is a
          legal value.



          Note that Wget implements 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 may take some
          time for this balance to be achieved, so don't be surprised if
          limiting the rate doesn't work well with very small files.




          FWIW, curl also has a similar --limit-rate option for controlling both upload and download speeds. Check man curl.






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            wget has --limit-rate option for limiting the download speed; from man wget:




            --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.



            This option allows the use of decimal numbers, usually in conjunction with power suffixes; for example, --limit-rate=2.5k is a
            legal value.



            Note that Wget implements 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 may take some
            time for this balance to be achieved, so don't be surprised if
            limiting the rate doesn't work well with very small files.




            FWIW, curl also has a similar --limit-rate option for controlling both upload and download speeds. Check man curl.






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              wget has --limit-rate option for limiting the download speed; from man wget:




              --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.



              This option allows the use of decimal numbers, usually in conjunction with power suffixes; for example, --limit-rate=2.5k is a
              legal value.



              Note that Wget implements 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 may take some
              time for this balance to be achieved, so don't be surprised if
              limiting the rate doesn't work well with very small files.




              FWIW, curl also has a similar --limit-rate option for controlling both upload and download speeds. Check man curl.






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                wget has --limit-rate option for limiting the download speed; from man wget:




                --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.



                This option allows the use of decimal numbers, usually in conjunction with power suffixes; for example, --limit-rate=2.5k is a
                legal value.



                Note that Wget implements 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 may take some
                time for this balance to be achieved, so don't be surprised if
                limiting the rate doesn't work well with very small files.




                FWIW, curl also has a similar --limit-rate option for controlling both upload and download speeds. Check man curl.






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                wget has --limit-rate option for limiting the download speed; from man wget:




                --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.



                This option allows the use of decimal numbers, usually in conjunction with power suffixes; for example, --limit-rate=2.5k is a
                legal value.



                Note that Wget implements 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 may take some
                time for this balance to be achieved, so don't be surprised if
                limiting the rate doesn't work well with very small files.




                FWIW, curl also has a similar --limit-rate option for controlling both upload and download speeds. Check man curl.







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