Package Throttle - Bitrate limit packages and downloads (support)

[ferventcoder]

This will allow to reduce the download speeds for all licensed versions of Chocolatey. If you are in a low bandwidth area, you will be able to specify a max download rate for both package downloads and any downloads they may run for non-included software binaries.

[DarwinJS]

This is extremely hard to do if you try to do it in proportion to percent of current on the wire available bandwidth - I have some PowerShell code I roughed out once - but handling the issue sufficiently gets deep fast.

One exception - just leverage bits - a known working implementation that services billions with Windows Updates. There is NOT even COM automation over bits - but there are some CMD scrapers written in PSH.

[ferventcoder]

I've already done research on this aspect and came to the same conclusion.

[DarwinJS]

@ferventcoder - you are the Thor of github responses - lightning fast 👍

[ferventcoder]

only when I'm awake. :)

[DarwinJS]

It get's really tough with server memory caching, disk caching and caching appliances to get a true "first pull" bandwidth read on the live wire. So a first pull of a small binary blob to "metric" the wire directly from the EXACT server you'll pull the rest from might give a read on end to end bandwidth - but then the object you did the metric with is cached in many places - complicating testing of accurate bandwidth measuring immensely.

Then if your blob size is not large enough - you don't know if you took advantage of a bandwidth burst.

[ferventcoder]

This will require changes made in 0.10.4 but will be in licensed editions starting at 1.10.0.