starting multiple simultaneous downloads of a file

[Les Mikesell]

Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Em Sex 19 Dez 2008, Les Mikesell escreveu:
>> Ali, Saqib wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I am looking for a utility that can start multiple simultaneous
>>> downloads of a file. I was looking into wget, but it doesn't seem
>>> like that it can do that.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>> You've got a multi-tasking system.  Why not run as many copies of
>> wget as you want?
> 
> I think he want to download multiple parts of the same file 
> simultaneously and assembly the file at the end of the downloads. 
> Multiple copies of wget would not get the job done.

Is that useful on a high-latency satellite link or something?

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