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]
real 1m13.156s
user 0m0.216s
sys 0m0.964s
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).
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<LOG> Download completed, job completed in 21 seconds. (5855 Kb/sec)
<LOG> Shutting down...
real 0m20.985s
user 0m0.116s
sys 0m1.412s