md5sums

Michael Hipp Michael
Tue Dec 21 15:09:39 PST 2004


Tom Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 21:40, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>wget    --background \
>>     --append-output=wget.log \
>>     --continue \
>>     --tries=0 \
>>     --wait=30 \
>>     --limit-rate=30k \
>>     --input-file=wget.list
>>
>># End
> 
> 
> A question.  Why the slow limit on the download rate?  I can get about
> 300k/s through my pipe.  Is it safe to throttle it up a bit?

Absolutely!

When I'm in no hurry I set it fairly low to be nice to my ISP. When I 
want it freakin' yesterday I add two more zeros - that pretty well maxes 
out my DSL :-)

Michael


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