On 2014-04-14 13:24, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 14/04/14 14:23, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I looked at the features page of "DownThemAll!", and what I gather is that it is an "aggressive" downloader, downloading several chunks simultaneously to increase speed. I want to decrease it.
I think that you misundestood this setting.
You can set DTA to open several connections to the server from which you are downloading the file which speeds the whole download because the file is cached at your ISP's end as the bits arrive; the file bits are then sorted and integrated when sent to your computer to form the complete file.
There is no way that you can get an increase of speed from the ISP to you - magic doesn't exist in the real world :-) .
I know that, I did not get confused. It is a similar trick as used by aria2c to download the opensuse DVD. The idea is that the upstream server limits the download speed to, say, 100 KB per connection. Your pipe is 10 MB, so you open 20 simultaneous connections to him, each downloading a different chunk of the same file. This is known as "aggressive downloading". aria2c does simultaneous downloads of different chunks of the same file from different servers (mirrors), so it is polite. http://www.downthemall.net/howto/features/ +++······················· Increase your download speed up to 400% DownThemAll features a smart download technique called ‘multipart download’. It splits files into multiple sections, which are downloaded simultaneously. This maximized use of bandwidth increases average download speed up to 400%. You can manually add or remove sections whenever you want during the download, and you can choose the maximum number of chunks every file is split into. ·······················++- I do not want an aggressive downloader. I want a very meek downloader.
But I have solved my problem with Carl suggestion, it works nicely. Of course, it has dozens of complicated CLI options...
Ah, that's good, and so it is all well with the world, eh? :-)
Sigh... unfortunately, it does not a continuous throttling, but a very coarse throttling. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)