How do I change my maximum download speed when downloading from a website on internet explorer?

Question

When I download a large file (even as small as 60 megabytes) my internet usually slows down for a couple of days and it doesn't finish the download. It takes minutes to load a single page, but I have high speed satellite internet. My understanding is that I can change my max. download speed so that my internet doesn't use it's full bandwidth on a download. But how do I do this using internet explorer?

Answer 1

You can increase the maximum number of connection IE makes to "10." Please read PC World's article on how to maximize your bandwidth (http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128154/printable.html). Before you change anything, create a restore point should something go wrong.


You can also improve your Web experience (but not raw throughput) by increasing the number of download sessions in your browser. By default, Windows limits you to a mere two downloads at a time, but you can bump that up to eight or ten. Since few downloads fill your network pipe completely, the overall effect is that downloads should go faster. (Warning: Regedit work coming up, so back up your Registry before you begin!)

Click Start, Run, and type regedit.
Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings.
Right-click in the right pane and then click New, DWORD Value.
Type MaxConnectionsPerServer in the resulting field.
Double-click on the new item and then type a new number of connections (say, 10) in the 'Value data' field. Click Decimal.
Following the previous three steps, create another new DWORD entry, giving it the name MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server.

Answer 2

1. find a faster internet provider (though upload speeds are capped on YouTube's end to balance load, I believe, so you could already be uploading at max speed, at least for your account type). 2. Choose a rendering format that give you a smaller file for the quality level you desire. I sometimes find the following link useful for determining what's the optimum quality for my uploads. Hope it helps you.