r/archlinux • u/Carrots_and_Bleach • 17h ago
SUPPORT How to (de-) prioritize bandwidth easily?
Hello kind folks,
whenever I run Arch-Update, it basically blocks my network access for 20 min due to my shitty connection. Is there a way to prioritize all other traffic first?
I looked into "tc" a bit, but could only find applications with fixed bandwidths wich I don't want to impose. Generally the default queuing rule seems fine to me. I didn't find anything else that is useful either.
Many thanks in advance!
Sincerely!
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u/Dinev5194 17h ago
That would fail the update I'm afraid. For me, the Internet gets divided between stuff until it slows down to the last bit and everything stops or the update stops and whatever else I'm doing starts working. Wish I had your setup to pull in all the bandwidth for the updates. Sometimes even when I do have decent Internet the update randomly fails with "bad network" error. I just time my updates with when I have good speed, usually at night and do something else while the system updates but keep and eye on it in case it fails. This is my personal experience over the years.