D. wrote: > Wasn't the principle behind the Download Accelerator > to make a faster download for modem type connections?? > Do the accelerator increase the download speed on a > DSL or Cable Modem? Actually, it is the other way around. If you have a high speed data pipe but are not getting the full bandwidth out of it then doing downloads of pieces in parallel can speed things up. If you have a faster pipe than the sites you are downloading from then this can speed up your download. But if you are on a slower connection such as I am using a DSL or, I hate to speak it, on a _phone_line_modem_, then once you hit your own data pipe's bandwidth limitation you are done. Doing them in parallel does not increase the overall speed any. I don't get any speed up using parallel downloaders on my DSL. I usually get the full bandwidth using one connection so additional ones don't help. YMMV. If you are downloading from sites much slower than your DSL or slower than your, oh my gosh, _phone line modem_, then it would help you but then I cannot believe you are a typical case. Of course there can be other advantages such as automatically retrying a failed connection and trying to find the faster sites and other such features. By downloading in parallel if one site drops out entirely the other sites in parallel usually keep going. A parallel queueing system. If you try them and like them then fine. But personally for me they are more trouble then they are worth. But then I am not downloading movies either. Bob
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