Sunil Ghai wrote:
As Diego Escobar has mentioned, many people around the world have slow internet connection. How about having a feature (possibly in kernel itself) to make updates using _idle_ bandwidth only? By idle I mean which is currently not being used and is free.
If you have more than one system on your network, how can your kernel possibly know what is free?
This would also keep responsiveness in other network applications. We can use current traffic control tools like tc to implement this.
The traffic is mostly coming the other direction. You can deliberately slow down the ack's to slow it down but you can't really tell how much is appropriate.
This might take some extra time and in no way making the network faster but user would be able to keep the system updated in best possible way on slow internet connection.
You don't need to update continuously. I think a better approach is to explicitly download at a time you are taking a break from other activity. Go get some coffee, have lunch, etc. and come back with the download part completed.
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