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Maybe Acquisition's policy not to download in 100KB chunks improves the subjective download experience but the download mesh (every client who has a file keeps track of all other clients with the same file) doesn't work as good without chunked downloads.
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The policy to disable HTTP 1.1 downloading was made back in October, long before the LimeWire HTTP 1.1 code in CVS had hit the main release. At that time, most chunked downloads would stall after the first chunk had come in. Perhaps now that download mesh enabled clients are more pervasive, chunking works better. I will experiment with this and see if I should change this policy. But, based on
jannuss's subjective experience, it sounds as though chunked downloads are still stalling.
And thanks for acknowledging your error regarding Acquisition's requeries. I have every desire to make Acquisition as good a network citizen as possible.
Dave @ xlife