How can we speed up rpm downloads?

[John Summerfield]

cornel panceac wrote:
> 2008/6/13 seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>:
> 
>> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 22:18 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
>>> parallel downloads is the answer imho. ( or at least one of the
>>> answers :) )
>> Parallel downloads crush a lot of network connections. Dial up is one in
>> particular.
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> i see. this happens only on slow connections?

I can download stuff from my local IAP, one one connexion, at 1.2-1.7 
Mbytes/sec.

I wouldn't expect two network connexions to download noticeably faster, 
but it would increase latency at my end: I can only receive one packet 
at a time.

I _might_ do better if I use parallel downloads from more servers, but I 
figure if I do that I make things worse at the server and on the network 
between. Besides, I _know_ some public ftp (and rsync) server operators 
object to parallel connexions from a single IP address. I don't need to 
be banned for 24 hours.



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John

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