RE: BitTorrent issues with FC4 isos

["Pedro Fernandes Macedo" <webmaster margo bijoux nom br>]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:33:19 -0700, "bruce" <bedouglas earthlink net> escreveu:
> after looking at 'getright', i'm suspicious as to how it can wor with any
> given 'file' of any large size.. if as you say, it splits the file up, and
> gets the chunks from different sources.. that's essentially what bittorent
> does.. i'm dubious that this app has the number of users as bittorrent, and
> i'd expect over all, that for large/more popular files, it wouldn't be as
> useful...

getright (and flashget and Downloader For X) use the resume features of web/ftp servers. They make several requests for diferent ranges inside the file and downloads them in parallel. Then the data is combined back in disk into a single file. The overall speed depends on the mirrors it uses. 
It's almost the same idea of BT , except that the "mirrors" here are other people downloading the files..

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Pedro Macedo