Updates using idle bandwidth

[Andrew Farris]

Sunil Ghai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Rather than implementing dynamic bandwidth throttling feature in updates
> only, how about having a framework possibly in form of headers and libraries
> which would implement dynamic throttling and other applications like Package
> manager or Firefox would be able to use it. For example, we can add one
> option in wget to get files using idle bandwidth only. This will solve
> purpose for other applications also.
> 
> I need your reviews that how this kind of framework would fit in GNU/Linux
> operating system.

Isn't this exactly what QOS is intended to do, provided the connections are made 
with priorities assigned?

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