[Sussex] ADSL

[Angelo Servini]

Brill m8

Thanx for the advice.

ps.  I dont know if other providers are uprating their services but
Freedom to Surf are doing 2mb (capped to 1g, free between 1am - 6am) for
just 15 squid.

Cya at the moot if the ball'n chain lets me.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [mailto:matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk]
> Sent: 19 January 2005 10:58
> To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] ADSL
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:38:41 -0000
> "Angelo Servini" <Angelo.Servini at claybrook.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Fellas
> > 
> > As I now have a 2mb ADSL connection (capped during the 
> day).  I now need some way of doing scheduled downloads after 
> 1am.   Is there an app I can get or a script I can enter to do this?
> 
> ummm, cron would probably help here along with wget, maybe 
> you could feed the files you want d/l'd into a text file and 
> then have a for-each loop with wget fired by cron?  Here's 
> the pseudo-code, my shell scripting is crap!
> 
> add a download script:
> ------------------
> 
> if(downloadingFile)
> 	echo $filename into toDownload.txt
> 
> -----------------
> get the files script:
> --------------------
> for each new line in toDownload.txt
> 	wget $filename
> 	echo $filename into downloaded.txt with timestamp and or errors
> end for loop
> -----------------
> 
> 
> Then just put an entry into your crontab set for 1am and 
> killing it when the daytime limit comes back in, et volia (je pense)!
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Matt
> 
> P.S. please don't correct the french, it's been years since I 
> did it! :)
> 
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