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How To Limit Wget Download Speed

Downloading is common activity, everybody do this everyday. But sometimes, we are stuck in a circumstance with a limited internet connection. To avoid bottleneck and the whole internet connection becomes unusable, we have to limit our download speed to make sure the other users still have decent bandwith. Good for Linux user, we have wget. Using wget, wo could control our download speed easily with this command below: wget --limit-rate=xx URL Example: Download an iso with limit rate 24kbps wget --limit-rate=24k http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily-live/current/hirsute-desktop-amd64.iso