Network Advantages
- Large files can be made available efficiently to many other users by someone who does not have large upload bandwidth.
- routes to the more obscure parts of the Internet can assert themselves across most of the Internet—this is especially true for dial-up users
- segmented downloading does save some transmission capacity, as the number of lost or redundant megabytes is minimal compared to losing a prolonged http or ftp download
Most ISPs have learned to cope with segmented downloading technology, but coping has meant the mandatory deployment of TCP/IP traffic shaping technology.
Read more about this topic: Segmented File Transfer
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