Myth about Download Managers

 

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Every download manager claims to increase the download speed multiple times. Surely they are of great help and can’t think of myself without one. But this post targets the users which are from countries like India where high speed internet is still yet to see all over the country.

Without Download Manager

  • The browser asks for the file from the server.
  • A connection is established between the client and the server.
  • File transfer starts but the speed is limited by the server to reserve the bandwidth for other users.

With Download Manager

  • The browser asks for the file from the server.
  • Multiple connections are established between the client and the server.
  • File transfer starts and the speed is as many times as the number of connections are established.

Here comes a myth. Many users (novice) assume that it increases the download speed but they are not aware of the fact that maximum speed is limited by their connection speed. Users with slow connections usually don’t get much improvements because the bandwidth supported by many servers for a single connection is greater or equivalent than the one with slow connections. For Eg: A server supports 128Kbs bandwidth for a single connection so a user with 128Kbps connection will not see any improvement in download speed. If the user downloads a file without using download manager then he will be able to achieve the 128 Kbps speed. For users with slow connection, download manager speeds only serve the feature of resuming broken downloads. They are of no use for increasing the download speed for such users.

A refined version of this post – Download Manager myth.


Comments

6 responses to “Myth about Download Managers”

  1. Quite educating..thanx

  2. @Manav
    You are welcome.

  3. shivansh Avatar
    shivansh

    gud workk…
    ๐Ÿ™‚

  4. @Shivansh
    Thanks for appreciating the work ๐Ÿ™‚

  5. shakeb Avatar
    shakeb

    hello buddy,well i m not totally agree with you i use INTERNET DOWNLOAD MANAGER and it certainly speed up downloading speed as my inbuilt download manager download with a speed of maximum of 25 to 30 but after idm downloading speed raise to 50 to 60….so can you clarify..

    1. try downloading from servers which don’t throttle the speed and those who do, they get fooled by the download manager and provide throttled speed multiple times, thus increasing the speed