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Not sure what this has to do with the subject, I mean multithread.

What would kget gain from being multithreaded, it doesn't do anything long duration which might block the GUI.

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You mean in case that the server is actually not one but a couple of servers with load balancing?

So that in reality you are downloading the file from two separate servers?

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I think I understood the extension but I think it only makes sense if the file can be requested from more than one server, be it really different mirrors or actually a load balanced server cluster.

Opening the same file on one single server is likely to be slower as there is additional overhead on both connection sides for the additional connection.

You can always file a wish item report in bugs.kde.org for kget if you think you need it, but I guess nowadays large file download usually happen through inherently multiconnection technologies such as bittorrent.

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You want something that for example prozilla offers.

@anda_skoa:
There is one gain for such thing while downloading from a single server -- when the server limits bandwidths for single connections. Then, if you connect multiple times, you can download faster, because each connection gets its own bandwidth limit.


@all:
But this hasn't got anything to do with slow internet connections. You can never download faster than your ISP allows you Wheather you have a single connection at 1Mbps or 4 connections at 256kbps, it still equals 1Mbps. The only gain is if there is a limitation of bandwidth for a single connection (and not for an IP, which would sound more reasonable, but is more difficult to control).