How to incre​ase your downl​oad speed

In general we have plenty of available bandwidth and if you are a premium user you should download at top speed of your Internet connection. If not then most likely there's something wrong at _your_ side. Users in Europe and US usually don't have problems with speed. But if you live in country where most Internet connections are plain crap you may be out of luck. In this case you have to use a download manager which can split a download into multiply streams and download few times faster.

Use download managers:

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   FreeDownloadManager [recomended]

   One of the good download managers is FreeDownloadManager. It works fine on Windows. If your speed is still slow using default settings you many try to increase number of sections per download. Do the following:
   1. Options -> Settings -> Downloads -> Network -&g; Maximum number of connections per one server: [set to 20]
   2. When a new download is started click Advanced -> Network -> Sections -> Maximum number: [set to 20]
   If you've done everything correct the you'll see number of sections 20 in the main window. Note that number of sections may increase slowly while download is starting. Usually it takes 2-5 mins.
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   DownThemAll

   DownThemAll is a plugin for FireFox. It's simple and may lack some specific features but it may give you a better speed even with default settings. You may even try to get a better speed by hacking it a bit and increasing number of sections:
   1. Type about:config in the location bar and hit Enter
   2. Find extensions.dta.maxchunks and set it to 20 (10 is the default max)
   3. Star a new download. Old downloads will still use old setting.
   If you've done everything correct you should see number of sections if you move mouse over downloading progress. From personal experience it's the best way to download files on lossy links (500 ping and 15% packets loss).

Use Alternative Links

Some ISP throttle users bandwidth by forcing use of proxies for everything on default ports (port 80). We provide alternative links with non-default ports. Try all of theese links few times each for different download and choose the best one for your. Note: currently we've a temporary problem with https links large zip files - downloading may stuck on 99%. If this happens just replace the link with default http link and resume downloading (i.e. do not start over).

Real life example

Given conditions:

• An DSL connection in Thailand. Advertised speed is 10Mbit/sec. 10MBit means to be at least 1MByte/sec of download speed. Actual downloaded speed is 20-50kBytes/sec w/o a download manager.
• Using FDM and 20 sections speed is 200-400 kBytes/sec.
• Using DownThemAll and 50 of sections speed increased up to 1MBytes/sec