I have no problem helping someone get a faster download speech and I'm also not willing to fling around fallacies about how selfish behavior is bad for society. Here is wget vs. aget for the full history dump of the simple english wikipedia - a substantial 3.5x improvement that someone who is having slow connection issues definitely should consider trying.
time wget -O/dev/null ' http://download.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/20090330/simplewiki-20090330-pages-... ' --2009-04-18 00:59:48-- http://download.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/20090330/simplewiki-20090330-pages-...
Resolving download.wikimedia.org... 208.80.152.183
Connecting to download.wikimedia.org|208.80.152.183|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 125918415 (120M) [application/x-7z-compressed]
Saving to: `/dev/null'
100%[========================================================================================================================================================================================>] 125,918,415 1.41M/s in 73s
2009-04-18 01:01:01 (1.66 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [125918415/125918415]
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mingus@dream:/home/mingus/ccnlab_bib -> time aget -n20 -f ' http://download.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/20090330/simplewiki-20090330-pages-... ' <LOG> Attempting to read log file aget-simplewiki-20090330-pages-meta-history.xml.7z.log for resuming download job... <LOG> Couldn't find log file for this download, starting a clean job...
<LOG> Head-Request Connection established
<LOG> Downloading /simplewiki/20090330/simplewiki-20090330-pages-meta-history.xml.7z (125918415 bytes) from site download.wikimedia.org(208.80.152.183:80). Number of Threads: 20 .. .. [4% completed]
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real 0m20.985s user 0m0.116s sys 0m1.412s