i have a premium rapidshare account and i'm dl'ing something that is 250 parts and 40gb....right now i have the max dl set to 20...the speedometer at the top is at 600kb/s but my files are only going at like 30-50kbs...if i lower max dl's, will my dl speeds get close to 600kbs? also my files keep losing connection...is this because too many files are going at once?

Reduce your number of connections (Max.Con.) to 1 or 2. You should also reduce your number of downloads.

A few premium downloads will already max out your bandwidth.

[Jiaz]

Originally Posted by wazawski

i have a premium rapidshare account and i'm dl'ing something that is 250 parts and 40gb....right now i have the max dl set to 20...the speedometer at the top is at 600kb/s but my files are only going at like 30-50kbs...if i lower max dl's, will my dl speeds get close to 600kbs? also my files keep losing connection...is this because too many files are going at once?

yes , 600 kb/s -> set max connections to 1-2 and max downloads to 1-2 thats ENOUGH to max out your connection.
20 connection is okay when you have a connection thats able to download with 400mbyte/s(depends on max downloads too) and more.
jd can easily reach 80mbyte/s with 4 connections* 6 downloads.
please reduce the settings then you should no longer have connection issues

when i have 20 dl's going, my speedometer gets up to like 1.2mb/s.....when i only have 1 or 2 going, it never gets higher than 200kbs...do i need to change some settings to get it so that i'm downloading 1 file at 1.2mbs? i've already changed the # of max downloads to 1 and when i do, the highest speed in the speedometer is like 200kbs

[Jiaz]

sounds like throttling of your isp or firewall issue.
if you only get high speed with more chunks then its the only way
but 20 is too much
better use 4-6 chunks and 2-4 downloads

is slow speed also in browser?
yes -> isp is throttling
no -> firewall causes the slow speed

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