Link - Limiting bandwidth (throttling) with trickle

published Sep 19, 2012 06:02 by admin ( last modified Sep 19, 2012 06:02 )

Untested by me, but seems like something that could be used for testing different connection speeds, i.e. to throttle connections a.k.a. bandwidth shaping (just putting in synonyms so I can find this blog post again if and when I need it).

Although this is an old question, I came across this when looking for an answer to the same question. The OS and interface limits are already addressed in an earlier answer, so here is a way to set up application specific limits. Use an application called trickle. So do sudo apt-get install trickle. You can limit upload/download for a specific app by running trickle -u (upload limit in KB/s) -d (download limit in KB/s) application