Trickle is responsible for limiting the use of the band both in download and upload of a specific application.

This can be very useful if you want while continuing to sail without the bandwidth saturated.

Can be used with programs such as: Deluge, Amul, apt-get upgrade etc etc.. Trickle is present in the Debian repositories.

Example

trickle-u 5-d 12 apt-get upgrade

In this case, is in charge of limited apt-get upgrade in upload and download at 5 kbps to 12 kbps,

or:

trickle-d 50 deluge

Deluge uses only 50kbps. For more options see the man.

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