df-downloader
##Damn Fast Downloader ##A Python-based parallel-and-distributed downloader on a Local network.
##Features
- Peer discovery on the local network.
- Currently using broadcast. *To-do: Maintain peer-list instead of broadcast.
- Distributing load among threads.
- Network Diagnostics
- Interactive front-end.
- Fast Peer-discovery To-do: Distributed Database required to maintain completed downloads
- Temporary Files stored. To-do: Add offline-maintenance and resume support.
##Issues
- The last few fragments of the file take time to download.
- HTTP requests to synchronize the final file has network overheads.