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Originally Posted by DutchDaemon
Most webservers I know of will correctly see that you are requesting and downloading 'byte ranges' -- the file gets chopped up in x segments of 1/x size on request of the downloader; also see the '206 partial content' directive in http that all download accelerators rely on.
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I know of a few bad eggs in the wild.. horrible bandwidth management practises.
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Originally Posted by DutchDaemon
By the way: do not confuse download managers (simple queueing programs) with download accelerators (those chop up the request using byte ranges).
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Sadly, those are pretty much one in the same... many accelerators can be used as simple queueing downloaders, but it's really a murky pond of choices.