Is my sonnection slowing down?

[Wing Zero]

ok today i wanted to dl some things and the file was about 80mb
usally i dl with 80-90kbs or something like that now im dling with 20-30 kbs is there soemthing wronmg? i have Verizon DSL

[Lwek]

Sometimes happens to me. But I usually don't mind it, because I'm usually doing something else while downloading something "big". Could just be your ISP. Your ethernet cable is getting dusty, get a gold plated one. Or it could just be you

[TheHybrid]

I have Verizon too. After a few months, it starts getting slow. Can't wait to get cable someday.

[Sicloan]

actually it has nothign to do with his connection. Its server lag, the server he is downloading from has a crappy upload speed. just live with it.

[aphextwin]

wow dsl is slow...... cable is like 500+

anyways, maybe its the host that is slow

[Wing Zero]

any way to fix?

[Sicloan]

Are you getting slow downloads on EVERY server you connect to? if so, maybe call your ISP and have them take a look at it. They probably just signed a bunch of new people onto your area and thier server cannot handle the load. The best way to find out is talking directly to them.

[Star Ally]

Originally posted by newbie4lyfe
wow dsl is slow...... cable is like 500+

anyways, maybe its the host that is slow

DSL could be around 768 kbps.

I agree that maybe the host is slow, unless every site you visit takes a long time to load.

[Wing Zero]

nah i fixewd it i just had to unplug the power from the router and modem and then retsrt cpu, yea every site i been on it dled slowly

[Corrosive]

How do you all download at 500+? I'm using cable (RoadRunner) and I download from sites at around 350.. please share your secret.. or rather explain it to this newb.

[Sicloan]

The secret is... the connection at the OTHER END has to support higher bandwidths. So basically the server you are downloading off of has to be able to upload at the highest speed you want to download.

There is a way you can "shotgun" your downloads, if you downing like huge iso files. You can get a download manager and then open multiple downloads from the same server. This will act like you are lets say 3 different people, and you would get the same speed as 3 people combined, given that the server has network load balancing software installed that gives each user an allotted download speed (probably around 300 kbps).

See so basically:

server upload MUST EQUAL client download

for you to be maxing out your download speed. Which will never happen.

On steam though, they have special software that splits the load between multiple servers. Which means faster downloads. When i Preloaded HL2 i was getting 7000 kbps (7.0 mb / s ) ... DAMN fast. The only problem is that my host (comcast) is very shitty and only allows 30 kbps uploads.

[Corrosive]

What's a good download manager? I used to use DAP when I had 56k just so I could continue my downloads later, but it put tons of spyware on my comp.

[DemiGhost]

i use dap, no spyware yet......... lol but yea does ne1 else know good download managers?

[Wing Zero]

just use spybot or adaware to get rid of the spy ware, dl manager um lookaround on download.com