On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Mehul Ved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 06:46:04PM +0530, Nalin Savara wrote: > > A Mani Wrote:-- > > > > > >Is it possible to finish a partial download (wget) with ktorrent etc? > > > > > (1) Obvious Answer: NO - It is not possible to finish a partial download > > (wget) with ktorrent etc. > > You can if the same download has a torrent somewhere. > eg. I am downloading an iso file of a certain distro using wget, if I > can get the torrents of the same version of the distro I can very well > use torrents to finish rest of the download. > But, since the OP hasn't mentioned what is being downloaded it can't be > ascertained as to whether it can be resumed using bittorrent or not.
+1....I did the same while downloading Fedora 8. I switched from "wget" to "bittorrent-curses" around 3-4 times to get the best download speeds possible. It worked pretty well without any hickups. -- Arindam Ghosh [http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com] GPG Key: 0EE58920 Key Server: http://pgp.mit.edu _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
