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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Download manager
From:       Troels Tolstrup <troels () tolstrup ! org>
Date:       2002-05-07 0:18:12
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> OTOH I missed today the ability to "queue transfers" so that one can
> DnD several files one after the other onto an FTP site (e.g. from
> different dirs), and the uploads happen sequentially (useful when the
> number of simultaneous connections to the FTP site is limited, or
> when the site is so slow and unreliable that one would prefer to
> upload the things one at a time - but without having to keep an eye
> on it).

It sounds like it has been a looong time since you last tried to 
download a whole bunch of stuff through a normal dial-up modem. You 
need a lot of patience if you 45 mins into downloading a 25 meg file 
suddenly need to check your mail. Or if you wanted to download a bunch 
of stuff while asleep.

I'm running a Linux From Scratch system, and i have downloaded 
everything through my 56K modem. A download manager was close to being 
a must. (ugh, X alone is 60 megs)  I would queue 50 downloads from 
maybe 20 different sites and then just goto bed. When i got up they 
were all downloaded just fine. I don't even want to think about running 
50 downloads at a time on a modem, they would keep timing out...

And as an OT ending i will advertize a little for tar.bz2 files. For 
modem users the size difference between tar.gz and tar.bz2 is 
significant. To put numbers on it, the difference betwewn 
linux-2.4.18.tar.gz to linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2 is ~2.5 hours to ~2 hours 
on a 56K modem.
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