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Hello.
For a while ago I was downloading the new 2.6 full kernel and it was about 50-100kb/s with a 24mbps connection. I stoped it and opened flashget (in windows) so I could get it for about 700-800kb/s.
I think KDE has a Download Manager, KGet if I'm not wrong. But, is there any "Download Manager" (wget) that speeds up the downstream?
Maybe it would be possible and intresting if wget (if I'm not wrong the standard downloads program) could have this feature, so we could download faster during, for example (wich I was using) Links browser.
That much of a difference (50-100 kb/s vs 700-800 kb/s) implies a poor connection, a networking problem, or coincidence (e.g. lighter loads later). I don't think a download manager can take all the credit.
I could even download at 1,2Mb/s ...
I have wireless connection at home, and both receive it well ...
with yum and wget I couldn't ever make more than 200kb/s... :S
anyway, would it be instresting for you if a fast download algorith was implemented in wget?
Hello.
For a while ago I was downloading the new 2.6 full kernel and it was about 50-100kb/s with a 24mbps connection. I stoped it and opened flashget (in windows) so I could get it for about 700-800kb/s.
I think KDE has a Download Manager, KGet if I'm not wrong. But, is there any "Download Manager" (wget) that speeds up the downstream?
Maybe it would be possible and intresting if wget (if I'm not wrong the standard downloads program) could have this feature, so we could download faster during, for example (wich I was using) Links browser.
What is your opinion?
There is also lftp, that allows multi-stream/multi-connection downloads (with lftp's "mget" command), as flashget does in windows. AFAIK wget uses just one connection per file.
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