Limiting upload rate in Bittorrent ??

IntergalacticWalrus

Does anybody know if there's a way to cap the upload rate in bittorrent? My ISP doesn't give me enough monthly uploading bandwidth to last more than about 3 days at constant full upload rate, so bittorrent burns it up way too much. Not to mention my downloading speed gets slower as my uploading increases, so at full upload my connection gets very slow. Grrr...

verbatim · Apprentice Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 223

Best way I know to do this is to use "trickle". It's in portage.

IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:07 am Post subject:

Doh. Just read the FAQ, and learned about the --max_upload_rate parameter.

BTW thanks for the tip verbatim. Turns out I won't be needing that for bittorrent, but I'll remember about that, should I need it the future.

scout · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 7:08 pm Post subject:

If you want to shape the traffic of your whole system, I advise wondershaper http://lartc.org/wondershaper/
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manywele · l33t Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 743 Location: Inside

Try emerging bittorrent-theshadow or bittornado. The gui has upload limits built in. Very handy.