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Trickle

Sometimes it’s useful to limit the bandwidth used by some of your programs, perhaps you want to limit your Browser or FTP client, and they dont’ have a native way to limit the input and/or output bandwidth they are using, there is a small application that can solve this problem for you: Trickle

Install 

$ sudo apt-get install trickle

Basic Usage

The easiest way to use Trickle it’s in the standalone mode, you use it with a single command, in this method the syntax it’s :
  • trickle -d Download_Bandwidth -u Upload_Bandwidth command

Example 1 : Limit the download bandwidth at 20Kbps for wget
  • trickle -d 20 wget http://linuxaria.com

Example 2 : Limit to 200kpbs the download bandwidth for a system update via aptitude:
  • trickle -d 200 aptitude upgrade

Example 3: Start Firefox limiting its upload badwidth to 10 KB/s, and download to 20 KB/s.
  • trickle -u 10 -d 20 firefox

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