I guess it would make sense if your own bandwidth is bigger then the mirror's... 2011/3/28 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric@xxxxxxxxx> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I understand this as being more flexible. But bandwith-wise, I do not see > why the Powerpill solution is more efficient. > Or maybe this come useful only when downloading small files where file > content transfert itself is negligible compared to connection opening and > other protocol handling... > > -- > Cédric Girard >
