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Re: [school-discuss] Knoppix vs. Freeduc vs. ???
Hello,
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 11:24:58 -0400, rtc <kudzu409@optonline.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A guick question about "etiquette".... is it considered 'bad form' to
> use a download accelerator to grab an .iso or straight distro?? I
> get speeds of high 100's to 200K plus on Windows sites .... I know
> that these programs make multiple connections to a server but I don't
> know the technology behind them .... are these "virtual" connections
> or the eqivalent of seperate logins .... If using them precludes
> others from logging in it is simply "rude" ..... Would appreciate
> knowing as the speed inclrease is substantial....
Some of these tools have an automatic mirror search facility or povide
you a way to manually specify mirrors and the it download different
parts of the image from different sites thus even decreasing network and
server load by distributing it.
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Best regards,
Aigars Mahinovs mailto:aigarius@debian.org
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