Star Downloader 1.32


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Star Downloader is a download accelerator that can increase download speeds by up to 400 percent. Unlike similar applications, it is completely free. It does not contain any banner ads or spy-ware.

[09/25/2002]

Star Downloader 1.32 released.

Small updates and bug fixes. Many new translations added.

Check out the site here.

Grab your copy here.

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OK. Here's what I get out of this. The website says that it splits a file into multiple parts and downloads these parts concurrently. How in the holy hell is this supposed to increase the speed? Let's say that your max download speed is 10K/s. You could download a 1000K file is 100 seconds right? Ok, now split that file in half. You now download 2 files concurrently, each file is 500K, and your max download speed is 10K/s. It is STILL going to take 100 seconds to download the whole file.

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thumper, this increases the speed if it's server limited rather than client limited. If you are limited to 10KB/s and you get that, you're correct in saying splitting the file isn't going to speed that up. But say you're limited to 10KB/s and you're getting 2KB/s. This would be because the server is under load - let's say it can handle 1000KB/s and there are 500 people downloading. 1000 / 500 = 2KB/s for each download. What Stardownloader will do is try to muscle in on other people's shares - say it splits it into 4 parts. You will now have 503 connections. 1000 / 503 = 1.988KB/s each. If you are 4 of these, you're getting 7.952KB/s - you're effectively increasing your download speed from 2KB/s to 8KB/s.

This is an effective system when the download speed is server limited, but I can't say I like it - your increase is at other people expense and that's not fair ... unless they are doing the same thing... :)

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