On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:30 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Adolfo Bello wrote: > >On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:01, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>In practicle reallity, and over some time, I have proved to my own > >>satisfaction > >>that it does nothing for you. It's an illusion. Looks clever and swish > >>but actually > >>does nothing to accellerate the download. > > > >Absolutely right! > > > >Adolfo > > One further thing though. D4X and NT can both search for a set of mirror > sites,but > unlike getright D4X and NT cannot , of it's own volution do anything > intelligent with the collection of mirror sites. Getright for instance > can periodically(you set it in preferences) check up on the download > speeds of the set of mirror sites by "pinging" them, and then if it find > sites with significantly better download speeds it can automatically > switch to that site and continue the download from that url. D4X and Nt > both rely on the user to do it manually if they so wish. > > John Did anyone mention wget? It can do multi d/ls and resume. Also Konqueror will do a resume. I like to split the konqueror screen and on one side have the d/l sight and on the other have the folder I want to put the d/l in and just drag and drop from the web site side to my folder side, hit copy in the popup and voila away she goes. You can do two or three at once if you have the bandwitdth. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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