Have you tried trickle[1]? It can limit the bandwidth of most programs I've tried it on. trickle -u 10 -d 20 ncftp This runs ncftp capped at 10 KB/s up, 20

Have you tried trickle[1]? It can limit the bandwidth of most programs I've tried it on. trickle -u 10 -d 20 ncftp This runs ncftp capped at 10 KB/s up, 20 KB/s down. [1] http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle