Some software IDEAS

[Corey Burger]

On Nov 30, 2007 4:53 AM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Still haven't got 7.10's dial-up to work real good.
>
> We can't get High Speed where I live, so it's Dial-up. When there are
> 120 Upgrades to Download, you would like to do that in the background;
> however doing that makes it very hard to download E-mail or anything
> else. So have a little App that you can switch the Dial-Up priority
> with. Something that can turn off the Background Download of Upgrades,
> while the E-mails are being fetched. Something that can turn off the
> E-mail and background downloads, while a new program is being loaded. On
> Dial-up doing a few things at once causes the Download speed to drop to
> one byte per month :) , and you might never get to download all the
> upgrades. :)

This is actually a lot more difficult than it appears. Basically, you
need a way for the network connection to tell other apps what "speed"
it is. The correct place for this is probably NetworkManager. Then
apps could query NM and if they were on a slow connection/metered
connection, either don't download or query the user, etc.

Corey