[Wishlist] Include limit-rate bandwidth option
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One Hundred Papercuts |
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Software Properties |
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Software Updater |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Please consider implementing a --limit-rate=amount option in update-manager.
Currently the update-manager does not offer the ability to limit the bandwidth rate of the update download similar to --limit-rate=amount in wget and gwget (at least not that I am aware of).
This creates a problem in that the update download will grab all bandwidth on DSL link and browsing, downloading, and other internet usage comes to a crawl for both the user doing the update, and other users/machines connecting to the same link. The same problem occurs when using apt-get from the command line.
This also creates an hidden problem for users that have their security updates set to download and install automatically. That user (typically one that is not very linux aware) is unaware that the update-manager has grabbed the entire link bandwidth at the start of their Ubuntu session, and then complains that "Ubuntu is slow, the network using Ubuntu is slow", etc., etc.
The option should be included in both the Synaptic Repository Updates section - or Synaptic Settings|
Thank you for reporting this bug and making Ubuntu better.
This is actually implemented in apt (the underlying program which update-manager, synaptic, and adpet use) but is not exposed to the GUIs as of yet due to lack of documentation.
You can see the example in the apt documentation here: /usr/share/ doc/apt/ examples/ configure- index.gz
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Best!