I decided to post this as it always comes up

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

Well, I tried your tutorial. Here's my review...

Well, firefox is not so great. At first I was getting 45 kbps, then went up to 160.. that's it..

Chrome, on the other hand was doing MUCH better. for 30 seconds. When I first started the download, I was get 2Mbps... then decreased dramatically... it was still going down when I canceled the download at 344kbps... :/ I have NO clue why it's doing that... any advice??

oh wow! Underestimated!!

I let firefox start the download and made something to eat. Come back and I'm getting 841 KB/s! 4 times what I was getting before. Still not what it SHOULD be, but it's better. Thanks JaMbo!

Thanks for the tutorial it is very helpful, however, my downloads are still extremely slow. The fastest speed I've seen so far is 178kb/s. I followed the tutorial precisely and tried different browsers too. Any help would be great, thanks.