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hi, i'm trying to work out why my downloads are so slow. By looking at
windows task manager I can see that the network utilization for my dial-up
connection is quite high when using a browser (explorer) with 50 - 100% used.
But when downloading most things I only achieve approx. 6 Kb/s at the most!
(I have a 56kbs connection). If I have, say, 6 downloads occuring at once
they will all be approx. 1 kb/s each! But when browsing it indicates that I
am using the full 56kb/s. It shows this in task manager. I can't work out why
this is. The only exception I know of is Valve's Steam network which tends to
use the full spectrum of my connectivity. Is there any way to increase my
download speeds?
 
danhalen said:
hi, i'm trying to work out why my downloads are so slow. By looking at
windows task manager I can see that the network utilization for my dial-up
connection is quite high when using a browser (explorer) with 50 - 100% used.
But when downloading most things I only achieve approx. 6 Kb/s at the most!
(I have a 56kbs connection). If I have, say, 6 downloads occuring at once
they will all be approx. 1 kb/s each! But when browsing it indicates that I
am using the full 56kb/s. It shows this in task manager. I can't work out why
this is. The only exception I know of is Valve's Steam network which tends to
use the full spectrum of my connectivity. Is there any way to increase my
download speeds?
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You may be confusing B with b. If you get 6KB/s DL'ing over a 56Kb/s line,
then you are getting it all.
 
bob i m downloading some files from ftp sites but can only reach 56k/s while
my lines is a 1mb adsl lines. is there any setting that i can boost up my
download speed.
thank you
 
Hi, i am having the same problem over my wireless network
i am getting 66% strength on my 1mb line but in windows task manager shows i
am using 0.20% network utilization.
i am having this problem on both of my computers.
Can anyone please help me with this.
 
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