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I know of http://aria2.sourceforge.net/, appears to be a decent program... but don't hammer servers, many hosting providers inaccurately measure bandwidth.
What does that mean? Well if you make 5 concurrent connections to download some 1GB file, it'll appear as if you downloaded 5GB of data.. not including any failed "retries". I'm not going to lie, you'll see amazing speeds.. but in the end, think of the person paying the bills. |
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Also see Prozilla in the ports tree (or http://prozilla.genesys.ro/ for more info).
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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.
By the way: do not confuse download managers (simple queueing programs) with download accelerators (those chop up the request using byte ranges). Last edited by DutchDaemon; 14th October 2008 at 05:17 PM. |
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My recommendation is axel.
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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. |
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I said hosting providers, not ISP's.. i.e: some shared hosting services.
An ISP would have more intelligent bandwidth tracking capabilities.. protocol independence, etc. |
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Word of mouth, rumours..
I think the US company "dreamhost" has such bandwidth tracking issues. |
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