For now, I think it would be best to not worry about it. Two reasons for
this thought:
1) Let's get the most important stuff done first
2) Most people that will use this feature will probably have a modem
connection and one download will saturate the line...
--ruaok Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing
Robert Kaye -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark B. Elrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: FreeAmp Developer List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 11:37 AM
Subject: Maximizing Bandwidth
> Hey all,
>
> I am working on the download manager that will be included in 1.5. What
> I would like to do is offer the option to maximize your available
> bandwidth. Maybe that is not the correct term. What I want to do is
> given n items to download figure out how many concurrent items can be
> downloaded without oversaturating your connection. What I was thinking
> of doing was to add downloads until i saw a drop in the amount of data
> being received across all the downloads. Then pause the last one and
> wait till one of the previous items finished then continue. This sounds
> over simplistic though. Perhaps I should just let users specify the
> total number of downloads they want concurrently but it would be great
> if we could figure itout for them. Anyone with any experience in this
> stuff?
>
> elrod
>
