Re: ITP: axel -- short description
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> Note: this sort of thing gets you usually blacklisted/firewalled at many
> 'download' sites. It gets around class based throttling sometimes. Ive
> had to implement a pretty nasty ftp setup to keep these suckers from using
> all the bandwidth and not being fair.
>
I understand the people who do that, that's why this program was just a
short experiment, I'm not really thinking about doing much work on it
anymore, it's just that it's (at the moment) my only program worth
packaging. It can do unaccelerated downloads too, then the only advantage is
the small binary (about 20 KB).
I have some notes about wastes of connections in the program already, and
tell them that setting the number >4 is ... inhumane. ;)
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