How To-66: "How to Accelerate Downloading"

How to Accelerate Downloading

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Many times it takes a very long time to download from another site. You can easily accelerate your downloads by following the directions.

Steps

1. Close any Internet using programs you do not need, so close any kind of P2P program (unless this is how you're downloading); Internet browser; streaming media; messengers; and games like WOW, America's Army, or any other multiplayer online games. This will increase the available incoming traffic you have.
   
2. Make sure your firewalls are not blocking the program and that the port is open. (See below.)
   
3. Get a download manager. Some of them are actually faster than the download speed you see when using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox (see below for a good download manager).
   
4. Get a faster internet connection.

Tips

• This tip does not apply if you are running single computer over a network connection.
  
• If someone else on your network is doing a massive download, or similar to above they will affect your speed as well. Kindly ask them to stop, pause, or slowdown/limit there downloading. (Or just wait until they are done.)
  
• Also, keep in mind that downloading from servers near you is generally faster but not always. If you are in prime hours in your area, look for a mirror server farther away where most people are likely to be asleep. The server loads will usually be less and your downloads faster.

Warnings

• If you do not have permission to unblock ports then don't!
  
• All websites have upload speeds governed by their providers. Don't expect to get 500mb/s from a site whose max upload is only 300kb/s, as you will only get its max upload speed at best. So don't call your ISP due to slow downloads if it is the fault of the site you're downloading from, because your ISP doesn't have control over that.

Things You'll Need

• Admin access to the router if needed
  
• Computer
  
• Internet connection
  

Related wikiHows

• How to Set up Port Forwarding on a Router
  
• How to Optimize Soulseek for Downloading Music
  
• How to Download Safely
  
• How to Download Winamp for Mac
  

Sources and Citations

• http://www.freedownloadmanager.org

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