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Download probs
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GigaNews' speed test/traceroute says my line is pushing 275-350 Kb/s
And yet GrabIt can only manage 70-ish Kb/s
Why? Why is it so sodding slow to download?
I've defragmented the drive, in case it was having trouble writing, but
it's not that. I can't work out why it's hitting 350-400 one day, and
barely managing 70 the next.
Any ideas?
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Because your pipe is this big -> O but their pipe is this big -> o
Many sites limit a connection, to say 75kb, to stop one person
sucking all their bandwidth. But with a download manager you
can use multiple streams to download the same thing.
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Unless the site uses an intelligent load-balancer that detects people
using download managers. Some sites explicitly ban them.
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I'd recommend you get hold of a download manager like
GetRight, as this can do upto 4 streams for the same
source, so you may be able to get 4x 75kb out of it.
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Takes ages to download....
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Unless of course they are running something that detects that you are
running a download manager and a) blocks the other sessions from
connecting and b) throttles your existing sessions even harder for
being cheeky.
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