I use often lftp to move data from server to server/client. I like this FTP client because is small, very powerful to use and present in every Linux distribution.
Plus, I can run lftp from the shell (maybe from a screen session) and forget it until the job is done 😉
To limit bandwidth with lftp, you can connect to the FTP site as always and then, before starting a transfer, insert these commands:
set net:connection-limit 1
set net:limit-rate 0:512000The first value in net:limit-rate is the download limit, the second number is the upload limit (after the colon), so…
10 Kb/s -> 10240
500 Kb/s -> 512000
In this example I’m limiting the upload rate to 500 Kb/s.
4 Comments
Soliman Hindy · March 9, 2015 at 22:19
Hi,
Thanks for the tip.
lftp is a great software!
xbao · December 30, 2015 at 03:29
Thanks for that. lftp also supports the ‘k’ postfix. From the manpage (http://lftp.yar.ru/lftp-man.html):
> Suffixes are supported, e.g. 100K means 102400.
nwgat · February 18, 2016 at 08:42
thanks for the guide, btw i do my own windows compile over at https://nwgat.ninja/lftp-for-windows/
nargaroth · April 17, 2017 at 19:06
thanks, you can also set a total limit for all connections and specify it in units like this:
set net:limit-total-rate 3M:500K