aria2

Awesome segmented downloading abilities, could be improved if you could implement the ability to operate on multiple interfaces. Even if this was tied to a particular protocol, it would be awesome to be able to balance networking load on the software level rather than requiring expensive equipment or complicated server set ups.

Re: anti-social software

> Segmented downloads use multiple (2, 4,

> sometimes a hundred) requests tot he

> same server.

I think what your talking about is more accurately termed "download accelerators".

Segmented downloads does not imply the same server, bittorrent for example could be considered segmented download.

The whole point of metalink is to desribe multiple sites that contain the whole file, if there are multiple servers then it makes no sense for a client to load lots of requests on just one server.

Re: anti-social software
% Fragmented downloading leads to a

The description and my comment both clearly talk about segmented downloads. Segmented downloads use multiple (2, 4, sometimes a hundred) requests tot he same server.

Using them of course reduces bandwidth for everybody due to the excessive overhead due to multiple tcp connections and requests, and there is no load balancing, the only effect is that it results more or less in a denial-of-service attack to some servers that cnanot cope with hundreds of requests.

> This type of downloading is a beneficial
> evolution of these old protocols.

Segmented downloads (as opposed to what you are tlaking about) is what aria2 claims to implement, and those are neither beneficial nor anything new. Its anti-social, as I said before. Supporting sofwtare thta supports it is anti-social, too.

Re: anti-social software

> when using this software, keep in mind

> that segmented downloads increase the

> load on the server and the network and

> actually increases bandwith at the cost

> of others. in the end, when most people

> use this horrible hack, everybody will

> have slower download rates as a result.

>

> best do not support this kind of

> software.

Any bandwidth increases would be due to more requests per downloaded byte, and would only be a fraction of a percent.

Fragmented downloading leads to a natural load balancing as data ends up being downloaded from servers with the most capacity rather than overloading the primary site.

This type of downloading is a beneficial evolution of these old protocols.

anti-social software
when using this software, keep in mind that segmented downloads increase the load on the server and the network and actually increases bandwith at the cost of others. in the end, when most people use this horrible hack, everybody will have slower download rates as a result.

best do not support this kind of software.