Version: 0.8.3 (using KDE KDE 3.3.91) Installed from: Gentoo Packages Compiler: Gcc 3.3.5 OS: Linux Most download managers for windows had this functionality since 1998 if I believe correctly. Ever since kget came out I was hoping it would getting at some stage, but 3.4-beta1 already and nothing. To explain the feature request in more detail, kget already splits file into multiple chunks to download, but I want each of those chunks to be fetched from different mirrors. I also want kget to accept mirrors being added manually and have it search popular ftp searches for sources. If you have a slow mirror, and kget simply creates 5 connections to that same mirror, chances are you'll just get banned, not gain speed. Thats a definite no-no in my books and you see complaints from admins all over the web.
For example, check out Axel: http://www.lintux.cx/axel.html -- its a command line version of what I'm talking about that.
Example: bash-2.05b$ axel -n5 -S5 -a http://64.12.168.243/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz Initializing download... Doing search... Testing speeds, this can take a while... 10 usable servers found, will use these URLs: URL Speed http://64.12.168.243/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/linux-i686/e 377 ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/www/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/linux-i686 379 ftp://ftp.in2p3.fr/pub/mozilla/firefox/releases/1.0/linux-i686/en-US/f 471 ftp://ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/mirror/mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/ 526 ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/soft/infosystems/www/clients/m 549 File size: 8623151 bytes Opening output file firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz State file found: 3518333 bytes downloaded, 5104818 to go. Starting download [ 45%] [....1.2 3 4 .5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > .? @ A B C ] [ 42.2KB/s] [01:49]
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62371 ***