How to limit download speed for apt with trickle
I think many a Debian user has felt the need to somehow tell apt to stop hogging all the bandwidth during one of those long dist-upgrade’s.
Unfortunately, apt doesn’t feature a built-in bandwidth limiter. Fortunately, a userspace bandwidth shaper exists, and it’s called trickle.
If you run a command from the console through trickle, it will preload [...]