Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages

[Paul McFerrin]

Don't you mean, "Stand in line? :)

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:19:58PM +0100, Ron de Bruijn wrote:
>   
>> I use the latest installer, but it only uses one mirror to download
>> packages from at the same time.  I have the impression that the mirror
>> I selected only gives about 30KB/s, which makes installing Cygwin slow.
>> What I would like the installer to do is to download from all mirrors
>> in parallel different packages and in case one mirror doesn't respond
>> that it just drops that one and uses another one.  The mirrors together
>> should be able to saturate my connection.
>>     
>
> I'd like the installer to use a more intuitive UI, be more capable of
> running from the command line, and be able to handle RPMs.
>
> FYI.
>
> cgf
>
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