On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:41:03PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > Wow - currently downloading a FEC movie at 33k/sec (estimated). > > A few more ideas: > > We should look at/collect statistics on the success of retries and > such-like, this will improve our understanding of what HTLs are good, > and what retry strategies work. Probably a good idea. > > What about some kind of "download manager" - users may not want to > dedicate an entire browser window to the download. Downloads could be > queued, or retrieved concurrently. Probably a good idea. Think about unix users though - fproxy would need access to the target dir. > > And finally, a simple practical suggestion - the page title should > indicate download % and ETA so that the user can monitor progress when > the window is minimized. That we can do. > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke ian at locut.us > Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ > Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/ > Get Freenet http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8891/iCnXWoOUlxA/ > Link good for 24 hours from this email
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