1 Long: limit-rate 2 Arg: <speed> 3 Help: Limit transfer speed to RATE 4 Category: connection 5 --- 6 Specify the maximum transfer rate you want curl to use - for both downloads 7 and uploads. This feature is useful if you have a limited pipe and you'd like 8 your transfer not to use your entire bandwidth. To make it slower than it 9 otherwise would be. 10 11 The given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless a suffix is appended. 12 Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number as kilobytes, 'm' or 'M' makes it 13 megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G. 14 15 If you also use the --speed-limit option, that option will take precedence and 16 might cripple the rate-limiting slightly, to help keeping the speed-limit 17 logic working. 18 19 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. 20