Idea #8320: Synaptic: simultaneous download if downloading from several servers

This idea was marked as already implemented the 12 May 08.

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Written by steve196 the 10 May 08 at 10:25. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: Already implemented

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Although i am opposed to synaptic doing simultaneous downloads from one server, i think, if it downloads from several servers (for example standard, medibuntu and winehq repos), it should download one file from each simultaneously instead of waiting for downloads from comparatively slow sources to complete in order to start the others.

Of course, this needs an upper limit. In case there is a lot of different repos i think, the maximum number of simultaneous downloads should be something like three or four.

edit: Several comments to this idea have said, that this is already implemented. At the minute i cannot verify or falsify that, but i tend to believe, they are right.

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fluteflute wrote on the 10 May 08 at 11:40

+1
Especially as Medibuntu is far slower than the main repos.

Holy_Cheater wrote on the 10 May 08 at 11:43

Nice idea, it should also help if you have a bandwidth limit per connection.

Sidney wrote on the 10 May 08 at 15:15

I do think Synaptic already does this. I'm not so sure about apt-get.

loonyphoenix wrote on the 10 May 08 at 15:22

Doesn't it already do that? For me, Apt downloads from two different servers at once.

steve196 wrote on the 10 May 08 at 16:54

On my computer it did not do that. I had it alternating between two very different download speeds.

vexorian wrote on the 10 May 08 at 18:50

It already does it. Perhaps it is a bandwidth issue? Mark it already implemented though.

leviss wrote on the 11 May 08 at 02:20

+1 Thats definitely a good idea especially for people with faster internet connections not using it to the full potential

light24bulbs wrote on the 11 May 08 at 06:58

i know ive seen synaptic download prom multiple sources, especially if one is going slowly. This is such a good idea i believe it has already been implemented.

Auzy wrote on the 11 May 08 at 07:27

Irrespective if it does it or not, I'd like to see it download via bittorrent anyway (and maybe multiple bittorrent files simultaneously

so +0

Its not a bad idea though

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