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I've often thought there should be like an optional slowlane and fastlane for downloads. Last night I downloaded a 20GB game and it nearly pinned my internet co
by maerF0x0 7y ago
I've often thought there should be like an optional slowlane and fastlane for downloads. Last night I downloaded a 20GB game and it nearly pinned my internet connection and downloaded in about 20 mins. But I knew i wasnt going to play if for several hours and there would be no reason to "brownout" my neighbors. I want fast internet when i want it. But also see a time and place for "download this, eventually"
- Darkphibre 7y agoThis should be possible client-side... You just negotiate the TCP ACKs to have a slower response rate, essentially self-throttling the quality of the connection.
- frosted-flakes 7y agoOneDrive and SyncThing allow you to set a max transfer speed, so it's definitely possible. OneDrive in particular will absolutely kill my network if it's not throttled (I have slow 10/1mbps DSL). It took a while for us to figure that out; for months we were randomly experiencing terrible Internet speeds. I don't even bother with OneDrive anymore because our Internet is so slow that stuff was always syncing. I use SyncThing between my phone, laptop, and desktop instead, which can sync over the local network.