Help with download speed?

my speed test shows that my dl spped is 186.3 KB/s and my upload is 17.9KB/s. but i am downloading a file which is 488 MB and is downloading at 177-179 KB/s. not evn reaching my speed test dl speed!!! plus i am using a download accelator-"Free Download Manager". Pls help by guiding me to improve my download speed!

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Sounds like you are pulling at the max speed that the server is sending.... remember, just because the speed test says 186, 177 is pretty good....

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This may be because you have kept wrong settings in your FDM software.

It is a good software. make maximum speed in that a auto/maximum option.

secondly if u r storing it to hard disk drive which is almost full then your download may be faster but hard disk storage speed may be less. So store it to a drive which is free.

lastly try using other download managers. But I think Free Download Manager (FDM) is best. So it is up to you to decide. try it out. may be it will work. Who knows?

Thank you.
Barca does rule.

Anyways, if you are downloading from Limewire, or a torrent, even from itunes, it will ALWAYS not download as fast as your allotted speed.

Other things must connect to the internet, and are connected all the time.
You will never reach your max speed. Unfortunately that's the way it is. For eg. i'm on an 8mb (megabit) connection but in reality it's an UPTO 8mb connection and the best speed i've got was around 700k/s but that only ever happened once. Usually my speeds are between 450-550k/s which i'm quite happy with.

Why Does My Download Speed Drop?

My download speeds runs a constant 2mbps, If I do a speed test before downloading a torrent I will get 2mbps, when I start downloading with pleanty of peers I will get in or around 20kbps download speed at best, Limewire Pro is the same, I get a max of around 10kbps.

I never had this trouble on AOL broadband, just BT broadband, Infact a dial up connection is quicker, What use is broadband for downloading if your speed drops to 20kbps when you try to download a file, encrytpion is on on utorrent but makes no difference

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uTorrent and other Torrent programs can only be maxxed out if you're settings are correct. Torrent speeds can vary because of seeders, you're settings, how much you torrent/upload and your luck.

The other stuff I have no idea.

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Check the port that the program uses to connect to peers. Once you know this go into your router preferences through your browser (address is usually something like 192.168.1.1).

There should be a section in there with port forwarding. Enter the port details and save the changes. Try rebooting the computer and open the software again.

Hope it helped.

Matt
as far as limewire is concerned it depends on how many hosts you are downloading off i'm on virgin media broadband and it's alot faster at downloading from limewire than yours mine gets up to between 70-90 kbps
There are many factors that can cause this.

First thing I would check would be the firewall. This does not allow other users to connect to you therefore lowering your share level on the torrent programs and limewire. You need to enable port forwarding on the router that you are using to allow these programs to run at their fastest speed.

And Dial up is in no way faster than how you are downloading now. Not even close.

It may say 56kb/s for dial up, but that is BITS per second not BYTES per second.

Yes, it is weird that they measure connection speed in Bits but your download speed in Bytes.

There are 8 bits to a byte, so you have to divide the total download speed of your connection by 8 to get your maximum download speed.

The max a Dial up modem is able to download at is around 4-5Kilo BYTES per second.
Currently downloading at 140 kbps

I use Azureus and had to tweak my settings quite a bit to get this

I did not download ANYTHING from limewire, and yet I still got viruses! How?

I initially downloaded an older version of limewire and had absolutely no problems with it. I downloaded a couple of things, and everything was fine-- no viruses, no popups, no spyware. Later when I came back to the computer I was asked if I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of limewire. I opted for the upgrade, but after the upgrade I did not download anything else from it. The truth is I did not have a chance to download anything from it because I immediately began getting popups, e.t.c. upon which I uninstalled it. Needless to say the viruses/popups are still here, and my system is running rediculously slow. But I just want to know how I suddenly started getting popups and viruses just because I upgraded my limewire. Somebody said that the viruses do not even come from limewire itself, but rather from the things you download. In addition, the only thing I have EVER downloaded AT ALL from any version of limewire was a few songs. So how did I get viruses?

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the music industry has been adding virus's to lime wire and many more file sharing web site's. you have been had by them. you should read the blogs that post this info.and then you would have known that by upgrading you would be screwed so to speak. its not from lime wire, but the music folks that have hacked the site. they condemn us for downloading song's for free at the same time they hack a web site. you decide who is more in the wrong here?????????? get this free tool to help fix the trouble. http://www.iobit.com good luck.

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You have have downloaded a non-legit (lol?) version of limewire.

Also, any surfing *can* lead to infection without proper protection
Spyware and viruses could have easily attached themselves to the upgrade from Limewire, in which case you wouldn't notice until the crappy junk started to happen to your computer. The sucky part about it is that the actual virus/spyware can be ANYWHERE in your system. The only thing I can recommend is that you do a System Restore to a previous date of the download of the Limewire upgrade. I hope this helps.
if u download anything from limewire it wont have a virus...limewire will scan the file before its up for downloading...

it could be just spyware i just recently got this...i recomend u get the spyware destroyer thingy from the micrsoft site because its the only site that will do it for free
I couldn't be bothered reading all your desc. sorry but you can get viruses from visiting site and stuff too!

Go to start%26gt;all program%26gt;accessories%26gt;system tools and system restore and restore to the day before the virus got on ur computer. It should get rid of it :P

Also do a scan after that too!

Hope this helps
1. Remote trojan - someone atteched a trojan through which opened your port and you are getting the popups and junk

2. The limewire upgrade was a fraud.

People post sites that look the same, if you got it free then remove it from C:/ drive and remove the registry of it.

If it still doesnt help, email me at gregorytomczak_2@hotmail.com and I will tell you exactly how to remove it
bro the only way you get viruses from limewire is if you download exe files or zip files, if you didnt do that you can get

a virus from visiting a bad site using internet explorer (use mozilla) and especially if you visit myspace.
because you need an antivirous i recommened norton
Let's see here. You admit that you are a thief and steal intellectual property (music, movies, software, etc) by using Limewire, but that is OK. That is cool.

But when someone breaks the law and infects your PC... that's a whole different story. Not cool. Not OK. False advertising! Call the cops!

Sounds a bit hypocritical to me. Don't you agree?
Visit http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ then run the Trend Micro FREE online virus scanner. Hopefully this should clean up your system.

Then you can download a permanent virus scanner of your choice or download from http://free.grisoft.com/

Keep your IE browser updated from Microsoft or Firefox.

Problem with Download Accelerators or what???

Since one month, I have been downloading a lot from dailymotion.com and youtube.com, using DownloadHelper. Well, DownloadHelper is an add-on in Firefox, which lets you download the streaming videos sort like the grabber. I used to copy the link and download it using DAP. Now, it doesn't accelerates any file at all. DAP asks me for authentication, my usual username and password for those sites doesn't seems to work. The same happened with youtube.com two weeks before dailymotion.com. I am not able to accelerate any downloads from this sites. I even changed my Download Accelerator to IDM, but still doesn't work.

How can I solve this problem??

PLEASE HELP ME.

THANKS IN ADVANCE.

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INTERNET connection problem . your connection has been corrupted.

How to download sony ericsson k800i games from sony ericsson website?

i have recently bought a sony ericsson k800i. on the sony ericsson website you can download games for your phone from there. i am trying to download 'qudrapop', it says to do this u need to save it to the 'my content' section on the website... but i have no idea how to even get to that stage as i dont know how to actually get it to start downloading. i cant seem to find a link to take me to the download process or to get it to download to the 'my content' section as it instructs you to do. please help!

10 points for the best answer [explain as fully as possible because the instructions on the website are no help! lol]

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http://www.myk800.lasyk.net/

u can download them for free here,i did it i have w950.

to play them

connect ur phone

go to the memory stick

find the "other" file and paste the soft ware in there

discoonect ur phone

go to the "other' file and select it and it will instal

to uninstal just delete it

Download manager problem?

I'm trying to download videos from the web but every time I click on the link and use an external download manager, it downloads "index.php" and not the video (though it works fine with the Firefox download manager, but that's not optimal since I want to have others in a queue). What can I do?

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use DAP, find it in www.download.com

Download Help!!!?

hey guys I was downloading Lineage with the mozilla firefox downloading thig( where all your downloads are)

well the thing is that my computer freezed and affter that when it came to its normal state all the things y was doing closed, invluding the download.

I was thinking if there is a way I could recover that because It was like in 60% and its a very slow donwload.

pls help me

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You cannot recover a botched download.

The reason is that the download has a built-in checking system to see if it is intact.

The checking system works on a handshaking method of sending a "code" during the downloading to see if all bits "add up" to what has been sent.

The method is called "handshaking" and the code check is called "checksum".

If during the download the "checksum" doesn't jive, the "handshake" attempts to "fix" the download.

BUT that is not your problem, you should have asked, Why did my computer freezed (freeze, froze), or lock up?

1. Maybe you ran out of space on the hard drive.

2. You probably ran out of RAM (Random Access Memory), and as a result the comp. freezed ;-)

If you intend to do more downloading (especially big files), you should consider upgrading to prevent this kind of hassle.

A bigger HDD and/or RAM.