Speed Up Downloads

[KazaaLiteUser99]

I didnt ask you to come back and finish off the topic. I was talking to nigel123 read his post and you will see.

sorry for not making it clear before.

[Ron]

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.

[thewizeard]

Originally posted by KazaaLiteUser99@31 July 2003 - 18:29
I didnt ask you to come back and finish off the topic. I was talking to nigel123 read his post and you will see.

sorry for not making it clear before.

Well I will try to answer. Your question is "on-topic", here you can talk about anything that's "off- topic." There are plenty of tips about your question in the forums, questions and problems. By the way where do you come from?

[Ron]

But if you can talk about anything "off-topic" here, doesn't that make it all "on-topic", and therefore misplaced in here?

[Proper Bo]

Originally posted by Ron@31 July 2003 - 17:28
That's Weemouses department, I think.
I only do naughty pics.

well get some posted! got any more of nikkid?

[thewizeard]

Originally posted by Ron@31 July 2003 - 18:38
But if you can talk about anything "off-topic" here, doesn't that make it all "on-topic", and therefore misplaced in here?

Much to philosofical, that question belongs somewhere else too!

[fugley]

Oh dear! I've think I've just cum!

[lynx]

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.

[fugley]

Originally posted by lynx@31 July 2003 - 16:53
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.

Alternatively you could buy yerself an Aardvark!

[Ron]

Or put a big magnet on your HD to filter out all the bad bits.
They get deleted anyway, but this will speed it up.