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