How do i get a faster dl speed.. i got verison dsl waiting 4 fios ... any help would be cool..

not a computer guru i know how to click the mouse button to dl thats it !!!! lolol


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Click here... and then type in "faster download speeds" or "how to get faster download speeds"

using the search function of our little community here can really answer a lot of your questions with many user contributed guides

edit: click here for a guide to getting faster download speeds done by a member here which came up in a search for faster download speeds. It is really the only guide you will need on this subject.

well done iamhollywood...i agree with u...

moving to tech help unless your issue is with linux directly

thought this was the right place..my bad .....

thanks for the link... But i really am computer stupid..is there like a Downloading for idiots

One other suggestion, is a handy little program called Advanced System Care. Not only will it's useful features speed up your connection speed, but also speed up the rest of your pc as well.

If you want specifically to speed up your connection, then you click the *utilities* button, then click on *Internet Booster*, then *go*, then drag the slider to your appropriate bandwidth. I usually suggest a 2mbps, as most people have that.

Hope all helps m8!

Side note ~ they have been known to Choke / Throttle bandwidth at times & at peak traffic
Is your IpFilter configured properly ?

Is your IpFilter configured properly ?

nope ...but i got some one to come over to show me what to do

Holy crap....why would you ever install a third party software that is going to bog your machine down just to do what you can manually without loading more software? There are hundreds of settings to speed up your pc...be it internet or local...please don't install stuff like that....all it takes is an easy google.


edit: By the way...directed here >>>>

My friend, you are incorrect. Advanced System Care does nothing of the sort. not to mention, that tinkering around in your registry and files can cause irreparable damage. Believe me when I asy Advanced System Care is truly a wonderful program that takes NO resources, and does a really phenomenal job on everything it does. I suggest you try it before saying it's a bad program. Trust me, it works very well.

Dude.....stick to craigslist....way outta your league...no offense.

Craigslist? Ok?

Please, before you try telling me I don't know what I'm talking about, try the program. Go ahead, do it. I promise you won't be disappointed.

www.iobit.com is the programs host.

coming from private torrent trackers where its fairly common to see users with seedboxes and home servers downloading individual torrents at 8 MB/s, i dont know of anyone that uses software to 'speed up' their connection.

in a nutshell, the software mentioned above does not increase your overall bandwidth - only your isp can do that. what it is doing is using a simple formula based on whatever you tell it your connection speed is, to increase the number of half-open connections your computer can have at any given time. in plain english: the more half-open connections you have, the more peers you will be able to connect to when initially starting a torrent. for a few moments after each connection is established you will see a spike in download/upload speeds followed by these values quickly returning to their normal values


translation: Advanced System Care's 'internet booster' does nothing more than create a connection bottleneck. use it if you enjoy doing completely pointless things with your computer and bandwidth.

yes, the program doesn't speed up your connection to something faster than what your isp is giving you, but it does , however, optimize the speed @ which your computer receives the signal, instead of being bottlenecked by xp's bottleneck. If you're running Vista, you don't need the internet booster, it's already optimized from within Vista.

I do ask echo, have you actually tried the program, or are you just talking from experience of other such software?

Again, I ask, please don't knock until you try it.

my friends, YOU are incorrect, no registry editing will cause irreparable damage, why? because livecd's can repair it even if you can't boot. the only irreparable damage to a registry is when the file is wiped out and is no longer accessible via backup either



dude.....stay on topic.



please, before i have to close the topic, stay on topic, that goes for this one and others i've seen you in, this is tech help, not battle of the geeks.




as i've said before hundreds of times, half.open connections will NEVER, EVER, EVER increase your speed.

Half Open Connection: A connection which is 'half open' it means that a syn (hello) was sent, but an ack (i'm real and here responding) was never received, it is a method used in DDOS attacks and does not affect your overall connections of full open peers that are indeed transferring you and not simply sitting there not 'ACK'ing to all of your 'SYN's

your overall speed is determined by your overall speed, the amount of peers that can transfer to you is determined by that as well, if you have a 56k connection and you have 250 peers trying to transfer to you, you will receive a bottleneck and end up reducing your overal possible transfer rate at that time.

there are calculations that can be done (most are done very well by azureus' and most all clients' setup wizards) in order to setup the right number of overall connections per torrent and globally, those are what you want to worry about, since if you have hit your max connections, other torrents that have started are irrelevant anyway as you have capped it to the right number.

in plain english: the 'half-open' connection patch (that thankfully you didn't link) doesn't do anything for you.

internet boosters also do nothing since they work on a technology of ripping out elements from webpages, and even that is debatable as to whether it works since the request is still made and would only work if the internet booster blocks the address and doesn't download it after getting the html/xhtml document

when it comes to torrents, the only things that limit your speed are:

1) blocked port
2) bad peers (slow)
3) tracker being down and stuck on dht:
4) your connection

not necessarily in that order of importance

if you have a slow connection or you are being throttled, then there is nothing you can do legally, and nothing illegaly that we can discuss here


edit:

and i don't need to try the software to know that it doesn't work in re: of your last reply, i know because i understand the way networks work....so yes, i CAN bash it before i try it.

well put Mazuki! any "internet booster" progs i have ever messed with just jam up my system or do nothing noticible at all.

Sorry Maz....just had a few in me and was tired of the....well, you know what.




I love you man!!!

Sorry OnTimeTechGuy that particular program is not suitable for the non geek types "DANGEROUS" I used it and still have it but It changed some features I'm not Happy about and am still looking into it. It maybe a good clean up programme for the knowledgeable type "Us" but not for computer "Illiterates" if you know what I mean. PPL that want to speed up D/L need basic setups like port forwarding and that for a "non geek " is still difficult.

Just outta curiosity MAGNETRON, would you mind listing the things it changed that affected your daily usage? What *bad* changes did it make, and this includes running the internet booster in the utilities section.

Well have sorted some of it " It changed my MSN live messenger to messenger and changed some visual affects that I was not expecting so finally sorted that out. and as for speeding up internet well didn't do a damn thing doesn't access your modem to set it up not a program for NOVICES. Have come across a few of these "now forgotten" they have glitches so one has to be careful . THAT's all I'm going to say.

wow alot of opinions here ..still dont have a clue ...i give up .....thanks anyway guys .. i do have an idea but i dont know who trust to do it ......

if your trust worthy pm me plz

its not my comp its Verison ... Thanks for all your help

Just as a sidenote, Dethmoose, if you're asking peeps to PM you if they're trustworthy my guess is that you'll receive a few PMs containing varying replies much like this topic did. The only difference being that those who know for certain won't be able to moderate/monitor and notify of corrections when something incorrect is mentioned.