On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:44:20 +1000, Sam Couter <sam@topic.com.au> 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. And, sometimes the ISP is interfering. I know that my bandwidth saturates at 140kB/s(down, of course). However, only the first 300k of a connection is that fast; after that, the connection drops down to about 40kB/s. This happens *very* consistently. At every site I've tested(dozens). Of course, I can open multiple connections(to the same server) and saturate my line(at the full 140kB/s). So really, for me, this is an ISP thing, not a "I'm trying to download the cracked Quake3 as fast as possible from the geocities server", but rather "my ISP is playing with some weird load-balancing shit, and I'm not sure I like it that much" :) Have a nice day :) -- .--=====-=-=====-=========----------=====-----------=-=-----=. / David Barclay Harris Aut agere, aut mori. \ \ Clan Barclay Either action, or death. / `-------======-------------=-=-----=-===-=====-------=--=----'
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