Does a DOWNLOAD MANAGER really increase the speed of download?
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It doesn't increase the speed. You have the same speed, but instead of downloading using a single connection you can download using multiple connections. In case the file you're looking for is on one server then the download manager will open more connections to the same server, and in this case you won't feel any difference! But many servers use mirrors. In this case the DM searches for all available mirrors for that server, establish connections to all of them and start downloading from each one at the same time. This is the only case wehn you may feel an increase in the download spped, which is normal.
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rapidshare is a pretty fast storage server. as i told you in the other question, you have no chance with your 256kbps DSL connection to get a reasonable download speed.
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you want to control your download speed ?\n--get download accelerator plus from download.com and set the bandwidth control to limited and speacify the number.\n\nor \n\nyou want to see how much you have downloaded over a course of a time ?\n---download bitmeter 2.0 \n\nhttp://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=bitmeter2\n\ncheck the history option and it will tell your history how much you have downloaded and at what rate!\n\nor \n\nyou don't want any people to download anything from the internet and only allow them to browse the internet ?\n\nyou need to talk to a systems administrator ... i am a programmer and i can't remember now how to do this but ..i am sure it is something with the registry.
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there is a server network that keeps a listing of who has what files.  then during search, the network allows you to Que up the search into a system that allows the bandwith to cram together and allow a "pipeline" download direct to you, which makes download speeds quicker
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The download speed can get affected by the intermediate data forwarding routers... due to congestion.. nothing wrong.
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are you using dial-up? if you are i wouldn't know anything about it. but if you are using dsl i find it helpful to turn of the modem, wait a while, turn it on, and reconnect to the internet. i've noticed that some downloads go a lot faster than others. try the modem trick and if that doesn't work contact your interent service provider. i had slow dsl and i called my isp and there was a problem (they had to have a repairman fix it). i hope that helps. :-)
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I am very fond of a program called GetRight, which can do multithreading, segmented downloads, mirrored downloads, you name it.\n\nhttp://www.getright.com/
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any unnecessary update will just take space but would not harm your computers performance\n\nmost users cannot not determine which update is required or not thats why it is suggested that you download all that are recomended
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Internet Accelerators are completely useless. They are hyped up by the dialup companies, but in actuality do almost nothing. What they do is to compress the TEXT and SOME image files as they are transmitted across the internet which causes an extremely slight APPEARANCE that your speed is increased, when in fact it is not.\n\nAnother type of accelerator is one that finds multiple copies of a file you are downloading and retreives it from multiple sources. This is becoming harder and harder as more and more servers deny 3rd party server access, thus making this type of accelerator obsolete.
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go to downloads.com & search for DAP or other varients of download accelerators\nTry cleaning out your temp files & removing unused programs defrag you drive aswell
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A faster internet connection speed along with the people you are downloading from.
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I'd say The Free Download Manager.
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internet speed depends on the service provider. if you are talking about downloading using P2P at higher rates, make sure your upload and download limits are maximized.\n\ncomputer speed depends on your processor, memory and even hard disk drive for data retrieval and storage. so, you can buy more memory or increase processor speed
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Ever tried Free Download Manager?\ngo here\nhttp://www.freedownloadmanager.org/\nthe best i have ever seen\nand its free also.\nintegrates smoothly with explorer, opera and firefox.\neven has the zip preview feature\nOnly one drawback iwould say - alternate urls anre not handled so nicely. better go for Getright if you are going to download something that has got many mirror sites.\nif you dont mind mirror sites then go for free download manager. i never had a problem (excluding the mirror urls)
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If you are using dial-up then you can get DAP which does help a little on downloads - but only minimally.  You can try changing your settings a little but what you change will depend on what you have.  No matter what you do don't expect any kind of major difference plus a lot of the so-called accelerators also carry spyware.  If your ISP offers a web accelerator and you are dial-up, it is worth the extra few dollars, kopecs, whatever per month for surfing.  Uploads and downloads are not helped.
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I have use Free Download Manager for quite a while and like it. It is free of course and there is no spyware or anything.\nhttp://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm
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If your downloads time out (usually when you have slow connection) \ndownload and install a download manager, they're able to resume downloads in most cases.\n\nSearch for GetRight or Download Accelerator.\n\nGood luck