"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
>
> Ron Stodden wrote:
> >
> > I feel sure the original questioner was referring to the ability of
> > the Windows GetRight downloader to divide the file to be downloaded
> > into up to 10 (number is user-specified) contiguous equal chunks and
> > download them all in parallel, resulting in a single downloaded file,
> > but up to 10 times faster download.
>
> 10 times faster? Me thinks you are dreaming. Bandwidth is bandwidth, and
> there's only so much. Whether you set up 10 simultaneous downloads or do
> only one, you are going to get the file in the same period of time.
No dreaming - think it through ... Results depend on where the
bandwidth bottleneck is - for 500MB/sec cable users like us it is
usually at or near the far end and applies on a per-connection
basis. So for the usual trans-pacific download achievable of about
30KB/sec, running 10 separate connection threads to the same
segmented file would achieve 300KB/sec, well within the receive
capabilities of the cable here.
Yes?
It would use 10 ports of the server, though, and the server or other
users may not appreciate that!
We can certainly download concurrently from 10 geographically
distributed ftp, music, knapster, etcetera sites at say 30 KB each
without slowing down any of the transfers. The cable modem does get
happily busy, though!
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Regards,
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