USA Premium and Lite Users: Get MUCH Faster Download Speeds! by Admin
Hi Folks!

I have been getting a lot of emails from our users over in America that the download speeds are slow and not what they expected.

This is caused by the distance from the server to the user (The Netherlands to the USA) but it is easily fixed.

When you download using your browser, you will only utilise 1 connection to the server - this is causing the slow speeds.

As a Premium or Lite user, you are allocated a maximum of 12 simultanious connections to the server, with free users only having 1.

This means, if you are downloading at 100KBps from the usa, you will be able to get 12x100KBps - 1200KBps!

How to do it

First off, you will need the following programs:

Free Download Manager - get it here http://files.freedownloadmanager.org/lite/fdminst-lite.exe
The lates Firefox browser (Which I'm sure you already have)

Once you have installed the Free Download Manager, you need to make sure it will automatically 'Monitor' the firefox browser by going to options > settings > monitoring and make sure the firefox box is ticked.

Then, go to options > settings > network and make sure 'Maximum number of connections per one server' is set to 12

You're now good to go - just go to the download page, click the fast download link as usual and Free Download Manager will automatically load. Click OK on the popup window to start downloading



I will post this in the news section as well as the tutorials section so it gets seen

Hope that helps - Happy downloading

Regards,
JaMbo87

Your Comments
spooked1oo
Posted on: November 25, 2009, 2:32 am
When I do this the downloads just turn into 1 kb files for some reason. Anyone know why?
StevenFrench
Posted on: December 2, 2009, 9:21 am
WOW. I too was very unhappy with the speeds, but this took me from 50 k / sec to over 2 megs. No joke, thanks alot guys. Love the site!
KeepGood
Posted on: December 7, 2009, 11:18 pm
I'm having similar issues connecting from the UK. After using the download manager for multiple connections I was getting around 1000k but its dropped back down to around 290k. How much bandwidth does the server have available? For reference I am using a 20mb cable connection.
Trotter_rettorT
Posted on: January 11, 2010, 7:40 am
I had the same problem as "spooked1oo." I downloaded Download Accelerator Plus. You can get it from download.com for free. It isn't as fast I as expected, but definitely faster. And if your connection ends, you can pick up where you left off, which is helpful.
Tacomofoko
Posted on: March 9, 2010, 11:47 pm
yea mine keep turning into 1000 byte files and renamed to alert.php then i have to wait and hr because it says i just downloaded a file

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