The same reasson download managers split one file in several pieces and download all of it simultaneously.

On 2/14/07, Paul W. Frields < stickster@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 16:14 +0100, Thomas Canniot wrote:
> Le mercredi 14 février 2007 à 08:19 -0600, Rex Dieter a écrit :
> > Thomas Canniot wrote:
> >
> > > Trying to promote Fedora and the use of yum (instead of third manager
> > > like smart)
> >
> > Why (yum vs smart)?
> >
>
> smart seems faster from his point of view, downloading packages for
> example, as it is able to download many packages at the same time.

I don't use smart, so can anyone explain this part to me?  Is there a
difference between downloading 3 packages at 100KB/sec each, and
downloading 1 package at 300KB/sec?

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