User Profile for bigyellowmonkey

Axelerate 1.0 (Mac OS X)

Cry me a river  

People who want to use this software will use this software. There are numerous large web servers that I can think of that have implemented means to prevent multiple connections from the same IP address, which prevents their servers from being used by someone to download at their connection's full speed. If a network admin chooses not to implement such measures, that is their decision, and as such, these utilities can be used. I don't see why its such a crime. If someone (like me) is paying $150/month for a 4 Mbit ADSL connection, I want to get 200k+, not 30. And if using this software gets me to 300 k/sec, so much the better. I'm not paying to download at the same speeds as the next guy paying $30 a month for his cable connection. And on top of that, how about this. If a server is configured to limit the bandwidth per connection to, say, 30 k/sec, and the server has, say, 500 k/sec of available bandwidth, but only 5 individuals are connected at once. Now I come along, and I want to download a large file, and I want it fairly quickly. Let's say I need it to continue with my work, which lets me keep my job, which lets me pay for my connection. I use a download accelerator such as this to make 10 connections (what i would normally do), at 30 k/sec each. I'm then using 300 k/sec of the server's available bandwidth, but the server is still under full capacity, so the other 5 users aren't being affected. Not to mention that the download will finish 10 times as fast. But hey, that's just my opinion. -Biggie! [alert admin]

Post a comment | More Info  |  1 of 1 users found this helpful

Sunday, September 07 2003 @ 11:56 PM PDT

No user comments.