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Best way to download files from multiple unstable mirrors? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Let's say I need to grab a large EPUB/PDF (60MB+) from a site with multiple mirrors. What often happens is I go the mirror, cut/paste the link, and watch as the file slowly trickles in before ultimately failing.

So I go to the next mirror and the process repeats.

Is there a way I can plug all the separate links into a software manager and download the file concurrently in chunks from the different servers, torrent style? Or at least resume the download at a fresh link?

I downloaded Persepolis on Linux Mint, but it doesn't seem to do anything differently than the browser.

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[–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, they're the servers with the countdown time to start the download.

No idea what they want me to download a net of 200MB to get a 30MB file that fails at 10MB a bunch of times. Seems like they're wasting bandwidth.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    If these are e-books you’re looking for, you may want to try soulseek. It’s promoted a lot on here for music downloads, but I’ve gotten almost all my e-books from there, too.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, nice. Unfortunately, I use a hotspot and VPN, so I don't think I can open the ports i need to share my library, so i get blacklisted pretty quickly as a leecher.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Ah, yeah, I can see where that would be an issue. I don't use a VPN for Soulseek since it's not really needed, but I seem to recall reading that it can be configured to work behind a VPN. However, the VPN provider must have port forwarding. And the configuration process may understandably be more effort than you'd want to put into downloading ebooks.

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