The same reasson download managers split one file in several pieces and download all of it simultaneously. <div>On 2/14/07, Paul W. Frields <<a href="mailto:stickster@gmail.com"> stickster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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? -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE <a href="http://paul.frields.org/">http://paul.frields.org/</a> gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board </a> Fedora Docs Project: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject</a> -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com"> Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list</a> </blockquote></div>