Democreous Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 My download speed seams to fluxuate between 86 and 300 kbps, and for some reason seams to go faster when I have the actual download window open. Does anyone know of how to speed up downloads at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelmanronald06 Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 FasterFox is one extension you can get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Democreous Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 any download programs that actually work a lot better / actually save partial downloads / actually increase download speeds / allow users to choose what to name the file being downloaded??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 www.opera.com - seriously. Not just plugging. FF's downloader blows. Use Opera's once and you'll never do anything else. It even has built-in torrent support. Although... increasing your downloading speed can only be achieved by programs that latch onto the server using multiple connections. No browser that I know of uses that technology. I'd suggest Download Accelerator, but I haven't used it in years and I don't even know if it's free anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Downloads for me are fine in firefox. Speeds are stable. It may not be firefox that is at faults with the inconsistent download speed it is reporting it could be the server being hit hard at that current time. Try downloading a large file of a reliable host. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Try to test your speed at http://www.speedtest.net Downloads works fine for me in Firefox as long as my internet connection works and the remote server works. Also I don't think download accelerators accelerate much as I am already downloading at the speed set by my internet connection. I won't be able to exceed that without upgrading it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Daniel, it's not always your connection that is the limiting factor. Some servers only allow certain download rates so it's often advantageous to pull a file from a few directions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Yeah probably, but in my case it is probably my connection setting the limit as it is not particularly fast (512 kbps). With faster connections such as 20 mbps the server might do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviewdr Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I get 14972kbps down and 9154kbps up from Ireland to England. Do I win a prize?? -steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 That's a really cool site... and it's interesting to test on various servers. From work, I got a down speed of between 1400 to 33000kbps... upload between 600 and 4000kbps. And the recommended server is definately not the fastest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I believe the recommended server is just the closest one to your IP. The closest one to me (Copenhagen) is 575/200 kbps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Yeah I use speedtest.net all the time. I sometimes piss about doing speedtests on servers all around the world. Heres UK - New Zeland speed results lol : but my usual is this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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