[codyps]

iirc, apt has support for it (it will only download a single thing at a time from a given host, but does appear to download different things from different hosts at the same time).

I believe gentoo's emerge also has support (though I'm not as sure here as I typically have the downloads happen in the background while building).

The overall goal here is to more effectively utilize the available bandwidth on the client side even when there are limitations a given server.

It's great that we can customize how to download 1 package at a time. But there is room for improvement.