Speed Up Downloads

[KazaaLiteUser99]

Originally posted by Ron@31 July 2003 - 16:34
If you are entitled to put your question in the wrong forum, then we are entitled to f*ck with it.
Rule of the lounge dude.
Live with it.

are you talking to me?

[thewizeard]

Originally posted by lynx@31 July 2003 - 18:53
Let's be fair to the little guy, and give him a proper answer.

The big problem with download speeds is 'bit compression'.

Most downloads are speeded up by compressing the datastream. This is usually the default. But the data eventually ends up on you hard drive - have you got compression turned on there ?

If you have, all well and good, but the compression algorithms for data transmission and data storage are different so the data has to be uncompressed and recompressed, and of course this takes time.

If you haven't got disk compression turned on you are saving on the recompression time but you lose out on the extra time required to write to disk. It is a trade off really.

But this only matters in the short term anyway, after a while your harddrive will suffer from congestion. This is caused by all the bits being pushed into the drive, but there is nowhere for the air inside the drive to escape. A quick solution is to get an electric drill and carefully make a hole in the top of the drive. Then seal this hole with sand and cement, this is porous and allows the air to escape while at the same time keeping out dust.

You see the labels which say 'warranty void if removed' ? Under one of those is hole for this very purpose, but the manufacturers don't want you to improve the performance without paying for it, so they stick a label on the top. You could just risk removing the label, but you will still have to block the hole with sand/cement.

Hope that helps.

Much to technical!

[Lamsey]

OK, OK, i know I'm late but...





KazaaLiteUser99:

If you mean how to speed up download speeds in Kazaa, try posting here.

If you mean speeding up download speeds for your computer as a whole, try here.

[-Archwolf-]

Originally posted by Lamsey@31 July 2003 - 20:00
OK, OK, i know I'm late but...





KazaaLiteUser99:

If you mean how to speed up download speeds in Kazaa, try posting here.

If you mean speeding up download speeds for your computer as a whole, try here.

nice pic lamsey

:-)