[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by archaosus

Is it possible to add some sort of hard coded limitation on download speed to the downloads perhaps by using fread() - I dont mind modifying a couple of lines of code and slowing things down for all users if I have to however I host massive files and it would be an ideal situation to be able to slow everyone to 300kps tops during peak. I don't know much about coding sadly however my guess is that if the amount for speed is set as a variable X then fread's speed beinf that variable that was set means the speed can be changed on the fly by just either changing a config file or an entry in the relevant download file itself.

Anyway - my question really should be, how do I do this, where do I put it and thanks

Edit, bonus question - is there also way to display the last 50 people who downloaded and what it is that they downloaded - then I could have that on the front page of the download system.

The first of these should be possible, but I will have to investigate. LDM uses two different ways of transferring downloads to the user - normally using the so-called cURL library, and alternatively using fread() calls. Although cURL itself will handle speed limits, this is not made available via the php interface, so it will be necessary to go the fread() approach.

The answer to the second question is again, 'yes'. This should be a fairly straightforward piece of coding. I will investigate.