On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 04:29, Michael Scherer <[email protected]> wrote: > Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 21:45 -0500, andre999 a écrit : >> Some suggestions for faster downloads without bittorrent. >> 1) use aria2c (or a similar application), which uses multiple >> connections, defaulting to 5, and allows multiple mirrors. >> By default it starts by allocating space for the file to be downloaded, >> which allows non-sequential downloading of the file, facilitating faster >> downloading from multiple sites. >> >> 2) use mirrors which allow multiple connexions. >> (Of course, with download software that takes advantage of this.) >> >> 3) use multiple mirrors. >> (Again, according to download software.) > > Theses 3 suggestions basically put X time the load of the mirror for > each client. ( or on more mirror, for that matters ).
However, if 1) was to open 5 connections on 5 distinct servers, that would make more sense, no? But then I'm not sure there is so much more value than using a P2P protocol. Romain
