it takes me about 12 hours to download a movie does anyone know how to boost this ? a friend of mine said she does hers really fast but she wouldnt tell me how the selfish cow!!!!
2007-09-23 07:49:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
if ur connection is capable of higher speed then it depends on the file u choose and whether or not ur connection is properly allowed and portforwarded ...
2007-09-23 07:52:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably you ISP restricts your bandwidth at peak times. Mine certainly does. I find if I download during the day, no problems. If I do it in the evening it takes as you say 10-12 hours. I normally start to download just before I go to bed and leave it running overnight. Also the more seeders there are the better. Give it a try.
2007-09-23 15:01:37 · answer #2 · answered by Gary Crant 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you got Broadband or Dial up? If the latter, change it to Broadband , you will find it a lot quicker and if you download a lot of films you will most probably save money in the long run. If you already have Broadband you may have to get rid of your unused programmes and download when there are no other
programmes running.Also enquire about the speed of your connection with your service provider as they can check it out for you and make it more compatible if necessary.
John H
2007-09-23 20:59:46 · answer #3 · answered by JOHN H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of downloading a movie depends on how many people are seeding it.. and also how many people are downloading it.. the best time to download a movie is like in the middle of the night and just leave your computer running... try changing your p2p program.. who do you download your movies from ???? e-mail me and i will give you the name of the seeder that i use and also the p2p program i use.....you could also make sure that you have nothing else running on your pc cause this can slow things down too..
2007-09-23 14:58:23 · answer #4 · answered by Father Jacks Drinking pal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of your download depends on your own ISP and it depends on how fast the source is that you are downloading from. There are also a few other factors that will figure into this equation... such as how many other people are downloading from the site, how far away the site is and how many hops (or routers) you have to go through to get to that site.
There are some registry tweaks that will help a very little bit...
A safe place to get these from is
http://www.speedguide.net/
You can also test your bandwidth speed at many sites like:
http://reviews.cnet.com/Bandwidth_meter/7004-7254_7-0.html
good luck. don't get caught
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2007-09-23 14:57:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you may be firewalled... this can slow down any downloads... best thing to do is if you can access your router to allow an open window to download clients. Alternavitely try using other download clients, such as bitcomet, bittorrent. Some other programs like limewire require you to share files and earn more band width the more you share, however with torrent files you don't need to do this.. you get a good spead dependant on the number of seeders.. however again make sure that your router will accept incoming from the download client you are using/choose.
2007-09-23 14:57:00 · answer #6 · answered by thornem10 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Uprade ur internet connection darling :o)
2007-09-23 14:53:00 · answer #7 · answered by Aaron 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
get a faster internet connection, like cable or dsl if your using dialup.
2007-09-23 14:55:18 · answer #8 · answered by Justin B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋