[ale] resuming transfers after disconnect

[John Wells]

Prozilla is very cool.  I got 3X speeds using it last night!

Thanks,

John

>>
>> You might also a download accelerator/manager.  I used proz (Prozilla)
>> last night to grab the 7.3 iso's.  Downloader for X (d4x) has a nice
>> gui.
>
> I'd never heard of this before, so I downloaded it and gave it a test
> run.
>
> I tested it by downloading a file from www.linuxiso.org
>
> Without ProZilla my d/l speed hovered at 125 KB/s.
> With ProZilla - 182 KB/s.
> Not 2 or 3 times the speed, but significantly faster, and I can resume
> after an unexpected disconnect. Also, I can add multiple D/L sites to
> speed it up. Without any configuration on my part, ProZilla
> automatically picked up the GaTech ftp site as my fastest option and
> went there to retrieve my test file.
>
> Very nice.
>
> John L
>
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