Bug 76312

Summary:	multithreaded dowload in KGet (spilit files into small chunks/parts)
Product:	[Applications] kget	Reporter:	Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan <maarizwan>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KGet authors <kget>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan 2004-02-27 22:52:48 UTC

Version:           v0.8.3 (using KDE 3.2.0, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.3
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.22

I wish that KGet should break a big file into multiple chunks and download with different threads. If a files is broken into 5 parts then 5 threads will download it. Flashget http://www.flashget.com (for windows) is such one application which do multithreaded (splitted file) downloading.

The advantage is that the big files get downloaded quickly. about 200% improvement in downloading. Thank you.

Comment 1 Konrad D?browski 2004-09-11 01:48:15 UTC

I'd like it even more if you had the option to download a file with different chunks comming from different servers. In getright the program would even find such servers for you. it would be *really* cool if that were implemented.

Thanks

Comment 2 Leonidas Arvanitis 2004-11-27 14:16:16 UTC

Please search before you post a new wish/bug. There are about 4 wishes for the same request (multithreaded downloading). This doesn't help the bugs' system.

The first (based on date) post is here:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62371

I'm not an admin nor a developer just a user.

Comment 3 Urs Wolfer 2005-07-23 15:33:30 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62371 ***

Comment 4 Leonidas Arvanitis 2005-10-07 16:23:35 UTC

Please if you are a voter for this bug, move your votes to bug 62371 so that they count, because here they don't:(
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62371