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[ericrocks]

First off im not good with CPUs so give me a break.
Could you guys tell me how to increase my download speed.
Currently I am only able to download at 90kb/sec and its pretty slow.
Help is appreciated.

[Husar]

You would have to pay your service provider more money for a faster connection.

Unless you mean you pay for more but somehow don't get more.
Of course it could be that your parents pay for the connection in which case you would have to convince them to get a faster connection I guess.

[pevergreen]

I'm presuming its the same everywhere, so there are a few factors:

1. The distance from the telephone exchange
2. The codes for the lines themselves
3. What speed you pay for

Quite a few routers show the speed of the physical line thats coming into the building. You should be able to get near that on a speedtest.

Remember, your download speeds aren't just about your speed, its also about where you are downloading from.

[LeftEyeNine]

ericrocks,

Download speed has nothing to do (at very insignificant rates, to be precise) with CPUs to begin with.

First of all you should know what your practical maximum download speed can be. I'm not very well informed with how infrastructure goes all around the world, but for instance, in Turkey, if you subscribe for a 1Mbit connection, your max. download speed can approximately hit 110-120 kb/sec, no more. So you should see if you're already reaching the download speed cap your connection allows or not, first.

If not, then there are several things that could be done:

For HTTP downloads (e.g. http://www.download.com/blabla.zip) -those that you download directly from webpage links, the world of internet is full of download managers which utilize the connection speed to its fullest by making simultaneous connections for the file being downloaded. I'm a definite fan of Internet Download Manager when it comes to this. However since it's a trialware, I can suggest you going for Orbit Downloader or FlashGet which are both freewares (FlashGet is ad-supported, IIRC).

If you refer to low speeds when it comes to peer-to-peer sharing -Torrents, Emule, Gnutella network, UseNet and the likes- there are network-specific optimizations that could be done which are generally about configuring your ports accurately.

Remember: We have a strict code for the copyright infringements in The Org, so I have to warn about such chatter to be avoided in any means regarding the fact that peer-to-peer sharing is largely being used for illegal file-sharing.

Hope that helps.

[rajpoot]

if you subscribe for a 1Mbit connection, your max. download speed can approximately hit 110-120 kb/sec, no more.

You mean 110-120 KB/sec, right
When I first took an internet connection (mind you, it's even slower, 256 kb/s) I went nuts trying to figure out why my downloading speed was only 30 KB/s. It was not until a long time after, that I realized that the ISPs used bits as a unit, and my system showed bytes.

[LeftEyeNine]

Thanks for clarifying a myster for me, india.

[Caius]

Why use trialwares when you can use "Download Accelerator Plus" which is free and better for me.

It also affect your download speed if you are doing something else, like visiting the org or using instant messengers.