On 12/12/05, Ivan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As far as I read the proposal, it is about downloading _different_ > > files from different mirrors - if you have 25 packages to get for your > > 'apt-get update' operation, download 5 packages from each of 5 > > different servers, with one connection to each server active at a > > time. > > > > That is what I mean ...
But with HTTP pipelining you can download all 25 files with only a single TCP connection. Using 5 TCP connections (to different servers) instead of 1 simply means you're using more resources for yourself.