On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:42:21AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 23:19, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > Looking for a good download accelerator (similar to...Download > > Accelerator...). What are some of the favorites out there. > > For me, the only things that really worked were things like, oh, DSL, > Cable, ISDN, my own T3 - actually getting the bigger pipes. So much > incoming is already as compressed as it can be, with the exception of > HTML.
Well, if the bottleneck on a given download is at your local connection, then yes. But if you already have DSL or cable (or your own T3, whatever), and you're downloading a file that exists on several mirrors, all of them busy so that there's a bottleneck at *their* end when you start downloading... In that case, a multi-source downloader can make a huge difference to the net transfer rate. Back in my Windoze days, I used to have great fun saturating my DSL line with GetRight... and I had wondered about download managers under Debian myself (Though it hadn't made it to the top of my stack of priorities yet...) -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree < > Please do not | that took a thousand years to grow. < > reply off-list. | -Edwin Way Teale, naturalist and author (1899-1980) < `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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