it accelerates in two ways : 1)if you have more than one connection to the internet, and your proxy does load balance, or you have multiple interfaces in your machine, multiple parts of file are downloaded via multiple connections
2) if server is load balanced, and it's domain have many aliases, chosen round robin as you connect, each part of file is downloaded from different server as an 'extra' there is ftpsearch feature, where axel search for mirrors. it is only feature, because can't be used in everyday's life, as it doesn't check md5sums or other checksums, and it is thus unsafe to download from untrusted mirrors. Sunday 10 August 2003 22:14, Antony Stone wrote: > On Sunday 10 August 2003 9:05 pm, Bob Arctor wrote: > > axel is an download 'accelerator' > > originally it splits file to parts (equal) , opens local file , and > > download it. > > Pardon my ignorance, but how does this accelerate anything? > > What sort of bottleneck (where) between server and client does axel > overcome? > > Antony. > > > On Sunday 10 August 2003 21:34, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > > > On Sunday 10 August 2003 20.39, Bob Arctor wrote: > > > > i tried to modify axel.c to make it work as an cgi-bin script , > > > > and with squid rewriting url to point it to cgi-bin script, but > > > > after a while of hacking i concluded it is pointless. > > > > > > What is axel? > > > > > > Regards > > > Henrik -- --
