Download Accelerators

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- green_man <green_man at bluefrog.biz> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any download accelerator/manager programs for Linux ?
> I'm on dial up, and I use Lightning Download on the M$ side of the fence.
> It's GUI based and allows multiple connections, so a 2 hour download only
> takes 20 min.
> It also does suspend, resume, and schedule, and will search for mirrors and
> switch if transmission rate falls below a set value.
> Does anything similar exist ?

sounds like a description of bit-torrent.  Though BT is usually for downloading

really big things (like iso images of CD's)

downloader for X is pretty good downloader (with speed throttling ability)


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Dave J. Andruczyk

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