Colin Wilson wrote:
> I went for FlashGet in the end, despite its' spyware / adware history,
> as apparently it's now clean and "donationware". The results were
> astounding, surpassing even what I expected, and i've seen downloads
> increase from a typical 60-100k from archive.org to 660k (which is
> somewhere around the absolute top line speed my current connection can
> offer).
Just be aware that users of FlashGet and similar are not being
particularly good 'netizens. The reason you were getting 60-100K from
Archive.org is because they deliberately limit connections to that speed
in order to provide a reasonable service to as large a number of people
as possible. FlashGet allows you to 'max out' your connection by making
ten or more individual connections to Archive.org and requesting
different parts of the file. The result is that you get your file
faster, but you take up as much of Archive.org's resources as ten users
would. If everyone used such a program Archive.org would only support a
tenth as many simultaneous users.
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Gareth Halfacree
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"If Ace Books ever came out with an edition of The Bible, both books
would be edited down to 40,000 words, and they'd be renamed "Master of
Chaos" and "The Thing With Three Souls." - Terry Carr