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[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 01:32, Richard Cottrill wrote:
> Quick clarification: The routing is fine; I'm trying to find a way to
> totally saturate my ADSL link to see what happens (I expect there'll be no
> problems). The machine is only slow when I use the HTTPS interface and when
> I ssh to the box.
>
> At that, are there any equivalents to Mass Downloader for Linux? wget is
> limited to only one download session at a time isn't it?
>

If you want to have multiple files downloading simultaneously, then wget 
called several times will be fine.

If you want to retrieve a single file by http, but simultaneously downloading 
several different portions of it, then try curl 
(http://curl.sourceforge.net).  With curl you can specify the range you want 
to retrieve.  With multiply instances of curl running giving distinct ranges 
to each instance, it should be possible to download a large file very quickly 
(given the bandwidth).

Cheers,

Rasjid.