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Re: [News] Linux Tool Raises Download Speeds

After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:

> Linux ultra fast command line download accelerator
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | ...I decided to get rid of wget. I have downloaded axel - a light
> | download accelerator for Linux command line.
> | 
> | How Axel works?
> | 
> | Axel does the same thing any other accelerator does: it opens more than
> | one HTTP/FTP connection per download and each connection transfers its
> | own, separate, part of the file.
> `----
>
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-accelerator-for-linux-command-line-tools.html
>
> Windows did not even support multi-threading in FTP until Windows XP.
> Recently, it took my colleague (who uses Windows 2000) 3 hours to do what I
> could finish within 5 minutes (KDE). I also found that scp/pscp is 3 times
> slower in Windows (machines with similar specs and identical 100MBit/Sec
> connection). It's no surprise that one Linux server handles the load of half
> a dozen Windows servers, each of which is far more expensive.

There's some disappointed comments about axel here:

   http://freshmeat.net/projects/axel/

I'll try to try it and see what it does.

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