[Ti] Speed up

[John Griffin]

Jesse Brown typed this message on 7/22/03 3:30 PM:

> On 7/20/03 8:33, "Lisbeth Zachs" <zachs at swedenmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> fredagen den 18 juli 2003 kl 20.27 skrev Jesse Brown:
>> 
>>> <http://www.enigmarelle.com/sw/BroadbandOptimizer> works and you'll
>>> notice improvements right away. Also to help speed
>>> downloads on broadband connections look at yazsoft's Speed Download.
>>> That
>>> works also and SIGNIFICANTLY improves download speeds from ftp.
>> ---------
>> Just want to confirm;  both can be used at the same time or is there a
>> possible conflict between them? I have understood they have a slightly
>> different agenda, but am wary of mixing help programs that may interfer
>> with each other.
>> 
>> Lisbeth in Gothenburg
> 
> 
> Lisbeth,
> 
> Sorry I have been away for a few days and did not see your follow on post.
> The answer to your question is yes. You can use both at the same time.
> 
> Broadband Optimizer changes the default packet size to 64K bytes from some
> lower number usually 32K Bytes. This affects every packet received.
> 
> Speed Download uses a completely different approach to speeding up file
> transfers by opening up to 6 ftp sessions at once and downloading 6
> fragments of the file in each stream and then reassembling after download.
> The speed comes from downloading 6 parts of the file in parallel rather in
> serial fashion. Of course the Broadband optimizer will optimize each stream
> packet size as well.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -- 
> Jesse

One thing to keep in mind: if you are using Safari Speed Download has
problems downloading .dmg files on Safari. Safari refuses to hand the task
over to Speed download if the file you want has that particular suffix. It
uses its own rather flawed Download window.

jg