Re: apt-get and downloading more than one file at a time
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Sam Couter wrote:
> Hugo van der Merwe <hugovdm@mail.com> wrote:
> > Something I guess not a lot of people really need, but something I
> > personally would like to use: I want to have apt-get download two files
> > from the same mirror at the same time. (Just like it does two downloads
> > at once if it comes from different mirrors.) I guess this kind of thing
> > is what, bad manners?
>
> Very bad manners.
>
> What do you hope to achieve by doing this, anyway? You can't double your
> bandwidth by making two connections. You'll be downloading two files at
> once, at half speed each.
Actually, that's not quite correct. When both endpoints are high speed, you
can increase thruput(which is not the same as bandwidth) by doing parallel
downloads.
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