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Here's what Wikipedia says about Download acceleration...
"Download acceleration, also known as multipart download, is a term for the method employed by software such as download managers to download a single file by splitting it in segments and using several simultaneous connections to download these segments from a single server.
One reason for doing so is to circumvent server side limitations of bandwidth per connection. Another is fault tolerance: in case of a failed connection only a part of the file transfer has to be redone. Because in normal networking situations all individual connections are treated equally, rather than actual file transfers, multiple ...