On Tue, 03 Sep 2013, Benny Pedersen wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> [...] it really takes a lot of time and bogs everything else 
 ml> down... if there is a batch of files larger than 8Meg, wait a day 
 ml> between hatching each of them... at least 12 hours,

 BP> Gert could set outbound in his binkd to be bwlim to 64K, for files
 BP> over 128K, i hope its possible with bwlim, else its a feature
 BP> request from me :)  

if bwlim is "bandwidth limiting" then it would possibly work but
only for what gert is transfering to others... it won't do a thing for what
is transfered between others...

then there's that is isn't coming in that's so bad... it is going out... so
many copies of the same large files being sent out to other machines...
figure one 8Meg file being sent to 10 other systems and you're suddenly
looking at 80Meg to be transfered... bwlim would extend the time needed to
send it and would not help at all... in fact, it may even limit the speed
coming in and that's definitely not desired...

 ml> anyway... i can't wait till rainy season comes again and i drop to 
 ml> a hard earned 1.5M down and 128K up :/

 BP> isps are bad ?

no, the cows and horses scratch themselves more on the barbed wire used for
the connection... since they are wet, it causes more line noise which
causes slower transfer speeds =)

)\/(ark