How do I throttle Agent's downloads of articles?
nob...@somewhere.zzz
internet, and when I download large binaries Agent hogs most of the
available bandwidth. How can I throttle Agent's downloading bit-rate?
I found the option:
Tools � Options � Online Operation � Usenet Tasks
-----Body Retrieval Tasks-----
[x] Limit body retrieval rate to [_____] bodies per second
But that won't help me. Most binaries take more that one second to
download at my full 500 kb/s speed.
I need a way to throttle the download speed to about 200 kb/s.
Paul Hantom
Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:48:28 -0800, nob...@somewhere.zzz wrote:
>I have a relatively slow (500 kb/s) broadband connection to the
>internet, and when I download large binaries Agent hogs most of the
>available bandwidth. How can I throttle Agent's downloading bit-rate?
You can't really. It is unusual for an application to be able to
limit its bandwith usage, although not that unusual for binary
downloaders. The IP stack in the OS is supposed to divy out bandwidth
fairly. If Agent is hogging bandwidth it is likely only because it is
hogging CPU cycles; something that OS's are also supposed to divy out
fairly. Perhaps try raising the priority of the programs that are
being starved of bandwidth?
>I need a way to throttle the download speed to about 200 kb/s.
You need to get a program like netlimiter: http://www.netlimiter.com/
Then you can specify the maximum amount of bandwith for every program
on a program by program basis.
Jaimie Vandenbergh
Alongside Paul's recommendation for NetLimiter (which does what you
want), you should first look at reducing Agent's number of parallel
connections to the server. This will reduce the bandwidth that gets
allocated to Agent - eg, if you have Agent set to 10 connections and
set off a web download, the web download will only get one eleventh of
the equally shared bandwidth.
This should be the better way forward, as it'll allow the OS to share
resources automatically and it'll still give Agent the full 500kB/sec
if nothing else is using that bandwidth.
When did 500kB/sec become slow? It's half again what I get...
Cheers - Jaimie
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nob...@somewhere.zzz
<jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:48:28 -0800, nob...@somewhere.zzz wrote:
>
>>I have a relatively slow (500 kb/s) broadband connection to the
>>internet, and when I download large binaries Agent hogs most of the
>>available bandwidth. How can I throttle Agent's downloading bit-rate?
>>
>>I found the option:
>> Tools � Options � Online Operation � Usenet Tasks
>> -----Body Retrieval Tasks-----
>> [x] Limit body retrieval rate to [_____] bodies per second
>>
>>But that won't help me. Most binaries take more that one second to
>>download at my full 500 kb/s speed.
>>
>>I need a way to throttle the download speed to about 200 kb/s.
Netlimiter seems to be what I'm looking for. I'll check it out.
>Alongside Paul's recommendation for NetLimiter (which does what you
>want), you should first look at reducing Agent's number of parallel
>connections to the server. This will reduce the bandwidth that gets
>allocated to Agent - eg, if you have Agent set to 10 connections and
>set off a web download, the web download will only get one eleventh of
>the equally shared bandwidth.
>This should be the better way forward, as it'll allow the OS to share
>resources automatically and it'll still give Agent the full 500kB/sec
>if nothing else is using that bandwidth.
My current Interent service is a town-wide version of a wireless local
network, using equipment originally developed for an in-home wireless
network, but with outside antennas on each subscriber's house pointing
to a central hub antenna. I want to be a good neighbor on this
system, and not hog too much bandwidth. I don't mind limiting Agent
to 100kb/s, and taking longer to download large binaries.
>When did 500kB/sec become slow? It's half again what I get...
I get 500 kbits/sec, not 500 kBytes/sec.
Before I moved last month, my ISP was a TV cable company, and my
account had a 4 Mb/s speed. 500 Kb/s seems slow in comparison.
Jaimie Vandenbergh
>I get 500 kbits/sec, not 500 kBytes/sec.
So you did - sorry! I'm so used to people getting it wrong that I
mentally autocorrected.
Cheers - Jaimie
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