On Jan 15, 3:26 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow! How does that work? >
It depends on the client, but in general the system works by connecting to several servers concurrently given by the metalink description file and and downloads partial parts of the same file in parallel. So, 5 bad connections - limited by the network and server speed - sum up to the maximum local network speed. i.e. 2x europe -> guatemala plus 3x usa -> guatemala ... Additionally, if the client supports the torrent protocol and there are others that do too and download at the same time, they might find each other and transfer missing data among each other. Besides that, it is possible to resume downloads and slow servers are dropped automatically in favour of another one. It also doesn't depend on an active selection like with the regular http/ftp downloads. The scipy server might have a bad day, whereas the xmission server would have been better. There is no way to know this in advance. The client checks this for you. H
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