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Originally Posted by threadbare
I've always been dubious of download mangers, how can they increase the speed of something that is finite? appart from setting the correct MTU size what do they do?
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They do several things;
1. They open multiple connections to the file which can get round speed limits on a single connection.
2. They can resume an interrupted download at the point it stopped, thus saving the time of having to re-load stuff you already have.
3. Most will allow you to schedule a download you are not in a hurry for - so it will fetch it at a non busy time for instance.
They cannot give you more bandwidth than you already have, whatever they may claim.