alt Hacker News> We also download over four parallel connections where possible.
I hope you can turn that off. It fragments the file and puts unnecessary load on the server.
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ronsor • yesterday at 10:59 PM
> unnecessary load
In some situations it's the only way to get a decent download speed.
You never used a download manager like DownThemAll or GetBot back in the day?
As far as fragmentation goes, I think both Firefox and Chrome derivatives figure out the final file size in advance, pre-allocate a temporary file that long and put data in it as it arrives. Completing the download is a rename operation or a no-op.