From 79d0a746c389d8001afbbca194bc74e2b506641d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: iggyvolz <iggyvolz@aim.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:55:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Dirty fix for doubling rate-limit

---
 youtube_dl/downloader/common.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py
index f85f0c94e..2a32de5a0 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 
     def slow_down(self, start_time, byte_counter):
         """Sleep if the download speed is over the rate limit."""
-        rate_limit = self.params.get('ratelimit', None)
+        rate_limit = self.params.get('ratelimit', None)/2
         if rate_limit is None or byte_counter == 0:
             return
         now = time.time()