Re: Proposing gwget for Gnome 2.10



> What do multiple connections give you?

Ability to max out bandwidth.
Many sites run rate limiters, so each connection is limited to say 10k/s
With 5 multiple connections each downloading a different portion of a
large file, I can break their rates and get 50k/s

Its how all those download accelerator thingys work.

iain



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