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Anti-internet

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Contributed by: panZ Tuesday, June 17 2003 @ 12:03 AM PDT

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Using this product to open multiple sockets to a server/file that is trying to share its bandwidth evenly amongst all its users in order to "maximize your bandwidth" is an abuse of the commons. You are, in essence, saying that you're need for a file is more important than everyone else's. This is detrimental to the quality of the internet. Server admins will start allowing one connection or throttled bandwidth per IP to curtail such abuses which can lead to all sorts of problems. I'd encourage you not to use this feature and prove that the tragedy of the commons can be avoided on the internet if we work together.   

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Anti-internet - YazSoft Support

To begin with, this theory is old and not applicable any more because servers today and the bandwidth they have available, are capable on handling way more hits than Speed Download can ever take.

Second, Speed Download 2 introduces a major new feature known as 'Sensitive Servers' where you can add the domains of such servers that have not been upgraded to handle more bandwidth and/or are simply old. This results in Speed Download opening only 1 connection (just like the browser) to that particular server.

As a result, Speed Download 2 is the most powerful adn user friendly download manager for Mac OS X.

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Tuesday, June 17 2003 @ 06:10 AM PDT


Re: Anti-internet - BMerlin

You obviously have no experience as a server admin. No matter how "new" servers are and no matter how much bandwidth is available, download "accelerators" act as though everyone else is a second-class citizen on the 'net. If you want faster downloads, pay for the extra bandwidth. Don't make others pay for you.

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Tuesday, June 17 2003 @ 06:27 PM PDT