Re: Any downlaod tool that can download a file concurrently?

From: Sunry Chen (sunrychen_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/01/05

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    Mike Scott <usenet.9@spam.stopper.scottsonline.org.uk> wrote:
    > Sunry Chen wrote:
    >> Any tools in FreeBSD that can do the job like flashget or netant in Windows? That split a file to several parts, and download it concurrently.
    >>
    >> It seems there is no resume function for fetch, wget can't download a file with several threat. I've also searched ports tree, mget can do concurrent download only with HTTP, can't do it well with FTP!
    >
    > I don't understand why you want multiple threads. You're limited either
    > by line bandwidth, or by server response time. In neither case will
    > multiple threads help much; and making massively parallel connections to
    > a server just might make the owners less than happy!
    >
    > Btw, wget does at least have a resume facility (-c)

    All I want is to donwload some large files from my office server which located in another city faraway from me.

    By doing the same thing with diffrent softwares, just knew the results are different on the same connection line.

    I want to download a large file >300M on a slow connection, while using wget the speed is 5K/s, it says there should be about 24-hour to finish it. While using Windows on the same link, flashget can accomplish it in 4-hour, and the download speed can up to 25K/s.

    Now I chose Windows to do the job for me. If there's good port I can use in FreeBSD, why I'd take 2 laptops with me? It's really heavy for me to take with.

    Sunry

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