do anyone still use download accelerators?

[becomingone]

i think the download manager in firefox gets the job done and so many people have broadband already so what do you think?

[TwoRails]

Haven't used them since I left dialup years ago...as you suspected..

[freakitchen]

I personally use the 'down them all' firefox extension - which is more a download 'manager' than accelerator. Its most useful function is probably the ability to pause and resume - but this depends on the server supporting it.

[Force Flow]

Never used an accelerator even in the dialup days. Download resumers were another story, however. Although browsers have that build-in nowadays anyway.

[kram 2.0]

Never used them. Most things I need download fast enough through our network.

kram

[yoloksky]

hello,

i envy you guys having high speed internet, i still use download 'optimizer', but not 'accelerator'. Its called tcp optimizer -> http://www.speedguide.net, it sure speeds up my dial up approx ~10percent. My crappy dsl charges me an extortionate rate... so bye bye they go.

here is another one (sorry i don't know if this is already posted here)
Click Start-->Run-->type "gpedit.msc"

Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable Bandwidth, set it to zero (where in reality 20% is allocated for xp use hehe) try it and you'll see xp pop-ups telling you not to do so.

if you did both, you'll see some positive changes.

wbr,

[kev7555]

No download manager or download accelerator used here, no problems...


-Kev

[glfredrick]

No need unless one is still limited to land-line and modem use.

If you can get a cell phone signal, check out the cell-band modems. Much faster than dial-up.

When I test my new system, it is uber fast...

I can upload at 6465 Kb/sec and download at 923 Kb/sec.



Average in N. America is 4224/814.

I used this:

http://www.speedtest.net/

And, have seen similar results with other tests. Me like...