diff -ruw wget-1.7/src/connect.c wget-1.7-bandwidth/src/connect.c
--- wget-1.7/src/connect.c	Sun May 27 21:34:55 2001
+++ wget-1.7-bandwidth/src/connect.c	Mon Sep 24 14:19:18 2001
@@ -282,6 +282,22 @@
 iread (int fd, char *buf, int len)
 {
   int res;
+  static time_t lastaccess = 0;    /* last second measured */
+  static int received = 0;       /* bytes received last second */
+  static int iteration = 0;
+  static int bytes_per_iteration;
+  static int iterations_per_second;
+
+  if (!lastaccess)
+	lastaccess = time(0);
+  if (!opt.bandwidth_wait)
+    opt.bandwidth_wait = 50;
+
+  iterations_per_second = 1000 / opt.bandwidth_wait;
+  bytes_per_iteration = ( opt.bandwidth_limit / (iterations_per_second+1) );
+  
+  if (opt.bandwidth_limit > 0 && len < bytes_per_iteration)
+    opt.bandwidth_wait -= 10;
 
   do
     {
@@ -302,11 +318,39 @@
 	      return -1;
 	    }
 	}
+      if (opt.bandwidth_limit)
+      {
+	struct timeval tv;
+	
+	if ( received >= bytes_per_iteration  )
+	{
+  	  bzero(&tv, sizeof(struct timeval));
+  	  tv.tv_sec = opt.bandwidth_wait / 1000;   /* full seconds */
+  	  tv.tv_usec = (opt.bandwidth_wait % 1000) * 1000; /* microseconds */
+	  
+  	  select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &tv);
+
+	  received = 0;
+	  iteration++;
+	}
+        if (len > bytes_per_iteration-received)
+          len = bytes_per_iteration-received;
+      }
 #endif
       res = READ (fd, buf, len);
     }
   while (res == -1 && errno == EINTR);
 
+  if (opt.bandwidth_limit)
+  {
+    received += res;         /* increment received counter */
+    if (lastaccess != time(0) && iteration >= iterations_per_second )
+    {
+      iteration = 0;
+      lastaccess = time(0);
+      received = 0;
+    }
+  }
   return res;
 }
 
diff -ruw wget-1.7/src/init.c wget-1.7-bandwidth/src/init.c
--- wget-1.7/src/init.c	Sun May 27 21:35:04 2001
+++ wget-1.7-bandwidth/src/init.c	Mon Sep 24 14:19:21 2001
@@ -250,6 +250,11 @@
   opt.dot_bytes = 1024;
   opt.dot_spacing = 10;
   opt.dots_in_line = 50;
+
+  /* <lukas@azzit.de>: bandwidth limitation */
+  opt.bandwidth_limit = 0;            /* unlimited */
+  opt.bandwidth_wait = 200;           /* wait 200ms by default */
+  
 }
 
 /* Return the user's home directory (strdup-ed), or NULL if none is
diff -ruw wget-1.7/src/main.c wget-1.7-bandwidth/src/main.c
--- wget-1.7/src/main.c	Sun May 27 21:35:05 2001
+++ wget-1.7-bandwidth/src/main.c	Mon Sep 24 14:23:46 2001
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@
        --waitretry=SECONDS      wait 1...SECONDS between retries of a retrieval.\n\
   -Y,  --proxy=on/off           turn proxy on or off.\n\
   -Q,  --quota=NUMBER           set retrieval quota to NUMBER.\n\
+       --bandwidth=NUMBER       set the bandwidth limit in BYTES per sec\n\
 \n"), stdout);
   fputs (_("\
 Directories:\n\
@@ -285,6 +286,7 @@
     { "accept", required_argument, NULL, 'A' },
     { "append-output", required_argument, NULL, 'a' },
     { "backups", required_argument, NULL, 151 }, /* undocumented */
+    { "bandwidth", required_argument, NULL, 24 },
     { "base", required_argument, NULL, 'B' },
     { "bind-address", required_argument, NULL, 155 },
     { "cache", required_argument, NULL, 'C' },
@@ -540,6 +542,9 @@
 	  setval ("sslcertkey", optarg);
 	  break;
 #endif /* HAVE_SSL */
+  case 24:     /* bandwidth limitation */
+    opt.bandwidth_limit = atoi(optarg);
+    break;
 	case 'A':
 	  setval ("accept", optarg);
 	  break;
diff -ruw wget-1.7/src/options.h wget-1.7-bandwidth/src/options.h
--- wget-1.7/src/options.h	Sun May 27 21:35:08 2001
+++ wget-1.7-bandwidth/src/options.h	Mon Sep 24 14:24:38 2001
@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@
   int   cookies;
   char *cookies_input;
   char *cookies_output;
+  int bandwidth_limit;  /* <lukas@azzit.de>: bandwidth limitation in kb */
+  int bandwidth_wait;   /* <lukas@azzit.de>: milliseconds to wait when
+          bandwidth limit es reached */
+
 };
 
 #ifndef OPTIONS_DEFINED_HERE