Learn how to limit the download speed of the APT package manager in Kubuntu, Ubuntu or any Debian-based Linux system. Do you share your ADSL connection to your neighbors? Your broadband connection is shared by several computers on a small network or LAN? If so, it is likely that everyone will complain that the internet is very slow when doing a system update in broad daylight as apt-get will occupy the entire bandwidth of your Internet connection. To avoid this problem and have to do updates during the night, with a few lines in a text file you can limit the bandwidth consumed by apt-get and not saturate the Internet connection. For Kubuntu, Ubuntu and company Just as root, you must create a text file in the folder: $ vi /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ limitlevel The text file can have any name. This example 'limitlevel'. This file should contain the following lines of text: Acquire { http { Dl-Limit "100"; } } The number 100 can be changed to your liking and represents...
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