Re: Updates

Thanks!  Might be worth a try.

On 3/5/07, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, maning sambale wrote:
>
> > > There is a package available called cron-apt which might be better than 
> > > the
> > > graphical update manager for this.  It doesn't need you to be logged in to
> > > download packages and it can start itself when the network comes up if
> > > you're on say, a dialup connection.
> >
> > Can you limit the bandwidth size for this kind of download set-up?  I
> > can't use firefox anymore when downloading packages on my dial-up
> > connection.
>
> I'm not aware of a particularly simple method.
>
> Linux can do this sort of thing though.  I think wondershaper might be a
> tool to look at, though I have never done it myself.
>
> http://lartc.org/wondershaper/
> http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.cookbook.ultimate-tc.html
>
> It seems to be packaged in Ubuntu.
>
> Gavin
>
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