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do download accelerators work
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Yes they work they break the file down do make the download faster.
Flashget is a good one i have used it.i am sure others will post what they use.there are quite a few out there it is all in what works for you.
Flashget is a good one i have used it.i am sure others will post what they use.there are quite a few out there it is all in what works for you.
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I'd venture to say they don't work. Your bandwidth is limited, and unless a download accelerator is making the tubes bigger, you won't get any more flow. Unless they have a special feature of compressing the file before you download it, but that seems overly complicated when good avertisting will get their product out...
Download acc don do any thing which is extraordinary ......ya they do split up the files and dwlds it thru multiple connections but all its doin is utilizing ur available bandhwitdh to the fullest...it does not actually accelerate ur dwld.
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Originally Posted by mystery_inc18 
Download acc don do any thing which is extraordinary ......ya they do split up the files and dwlds it thru multiple connections but all its doin is utilizing ur available bandhwitdh to the fullest...it does not actually accelerate ur dwld.
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Originally Posted by Infarction
How would that make the download faster? You send a request for a file to some server, it sends you the whole file. I don't think there's a non-p2p protocol that allows you to ask for specific sections of a file. And having multiple connections means having multiple sources of overhead. Odds are, either your connection will be used up anyways, or it's fast enough you don't need to worry about an accelerator...
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Currently I'm using Orbit Downloader. Before this, I had used Getright, Internet Download Accelerator, and Internet Download Manager.
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Originally Posted by joeprogrammer
A common problem when downloading from a busy server is that it limits the amount of bandwidth given to a connection so that it can process all connections. Using multiple connections allows you to (often) fool the server into thinking that there's 2 separate computers, and then therefore you get twice the bandwidth, assuming that your bandwidth is large enough to acommadate the increased downspeed.
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Originally Posted by Infarction
That is true, but how do you go about getting chunks of the file over multiple connections? It seems like that would only work when you're getting multiple files from the same server.
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From what I know, download accelerators doesn't connect to a single address to speed-up download, rather it also connects to mirrors. Basically you'll be downloading different pieces of the file from different locations. Like downloading 3 different files at the speed of 30kbps each. And since they're 3 different pieces of the same file, effectively you'll be downloading at 90kbps.
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