2011/3/28 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 2011/3/28 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Marek Otahal <markotahal@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > >> >> I started >> >> using it recently for it's aria2c multithreaded downloads >> >> >> > >> > Hi, >> > You may continue to use aria2c with various techniques explained here: >> > >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Improve_Pacman_Performance#Using_aria2 >> > >> > Regards, >> > -- >> > Cédric Girard >> > >> Unfortunately those techniques don't give the biggest speedup - >> simultaneous download of multiple files. Does help, though =) >> > > Downloading one file from several mirrors should be equivalent to > downloading multiple files from one mirror (or even better). Or am I wrong? > > -- > Cédric Girard > If you have 10 files to download, powerpill allows for 1 file from mirror A, another from mirror B, and chunks of that large 68MB file from mirrors C, D, and E at the same time. With the other solutions, you'd still wait for file 1 to finish downloading before downloading file 2.
