Upload Manager That Controls Speed?

**Laysan_A** · August 27th, 2010

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knows of an upload manager, either native or wine, that allows the control of upload speed?

I have one of those broadband plans that severely restricts upstream bandwidth, and while I'm uploading there is no room left for upstream communication, so I can't do anything else online but upload (boring). If I can limit my upstream speed to, say, 20KBps, it essentially frees all my downstream bandwidth and I can actually use my computer.

Currently, I've only tried plowshare for uploading, and though it seems to work well, it doesn't allow shaping...

Anyone?

**Laysan_A** · August 28th, 2010

Well, it's been a while, and I'm buried...so, BUMP...

**bergfly** · August 28th, 2010

What protocol are you uploading? Kget, the default download manager, has speed limits on it's upload side. However, depending on what you are using to upload, I'm not sure if you can use it.

**Laysan_A** · August 28th, 2010

I'd be uploading to places like megaupload, so I suppose http.

I didn't know kget had an upload side - or is it just ftp?

Yeah, I just spent more than a few minutes looking at kget in a variety of places, and couldn't find any upload capability, although I did see an image with a curious tic box labeled "limit upload speed" or something similar. This had me going for a while, until I realized that shaping the upload has been an integral aspect of torrent management for a long, long time.

I get why people develop download managers without the ability to upload - it's probably like writing another entire program, and people do like downloading better than uploading. But surely it's about time the http sharers realize that "sharing" involves both, and demand a decent upload manager, too.