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Planet Sky Speed Changer

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Update: I have recreated the same script in Rebol, a very expressive scripting language.
If you are using Planet Sky internet service and your server computer is XP Professional then you can schedule the planetskyspeed batch file to automatically change your download speed based on the time of day. Download it here. This batch file assumes that your computer displays time using AM/PM format.

The batch file is 19 lines long - the Rebol script is just 6 lines long. Here it is:

REBOL []
system/schemes/http/user: 'USERNAME
system/schemes/http/pass: 'PASSWORD
;        00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
speeds: [ 3  3  3  3  4  4  5  5  5  5  4  4  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1]
extracthour: func [t] [t/hour]
read/custom http://customer.planetsky.com/speed/ reduce [
'post join "S=" pick speeds (extracthour now/time + 1) ]

Written by david

December 9th, 2007 at 11:30 am

Posted in Tools