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diff --git a/ftp/paraget/pkg-descr b/ftp/paraget/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..64ecc8d9e3d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/ftp/paraget/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Paraget implements getting a single file in parallel from different mirror +sites. + +Given that there are mirror-sites for the file one is downloading, one can +in principle accomplish a much greater bandwidth by downloading from all +the sites in parallel . This is accomplished by dividing the file being +fetched into several pieces, and by getting each piece from a different +server, and then re-assembling them. + +If there are enough mirror sites, this partitioning makes it so that the +bottleneck is now placed at the client end, maxing the client's connection. + +Paraget is designed to not only do basic n -equal-piece partitioning of a +file and sending requests out to n servers for data, but to also be dynamic +during the downloading process. For example if one server is too slow, and +paraget was done with faster server downloading its piece + +WWW: http://paraget.sourceforge.net/ |