Can I limit my SSH Tunneling Speed?

Question

So, I'm using my ssh tunneling to download some content which is blocked by my office. But, I don't want the admin to notice it, therefore I want to limit the connection to, eg: 20KB/s.

How can I do that? FYI: -I'm using DownThemAll to download the content. -I'm using ubuntu 9.04

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with DownThemAll, but I see that it's a Firefox extension. So you could try running trickle to launch Firefox with a download limit (see man trickle). For example:

trickle -d 20 firefox

That will set a download limit of 20 KB/s.

For completeness, users running Windows can do the same by using the Firefox Throttle add-on.

Answer 2

QoS and bandwidth management for Linux.

http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.html

But you probably just want to forget about it.

edit: not because it's technically difficult, but because it sounds like a good way to get yourself in trouble.