Trickle
Now this is something great. I have been looking for something like this for ages, and usually when you ask any GNU/Linux user about a bandwidth shaper all they can tell you is “get a router with QoS” or “check lartc.org“.
I never really felt like buying a new router and never had the time or patience to go through lartc. Maybe if I was managing a wireless community like a friend of mine does it would be worth it.
And trickle works very nicely with firefox, which is probably the only thing I’m going to use it with, given that wget, scp, deluge and other stuff usually have built in limiting and I never found any download limiter extension for firefox.
By the way, this isn’t the first time Debian Package of the Day has given me great suggestions (like qalculate).They’re in need of new articles, so if you know about any great packages that are relatively unknown consider writing an article for them. I’m thinking about writing one, and I already chose a package :) Expect it soon !
