How can I get my internet downloads at specific (off-peak) times ?

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I want to set my internet downloads (say, from MIRO) at off-peak times. How do I do this ?

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Kristopher Ives (krisives) said :
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You may want to try the `wondershaper` package, which lets you change your upload/download limit, so you could do that to marshal your connection at different times with a CRON job or similar.

Another option would be to use GWget to queue your downloads.

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