Why is Free Download Manager downloading files so slowly?

[16ngr1]

Didn't it say that it would download as fast as in like a minute or so? How come the speed here is so slow? (Some fields in the image have been covered for privacy)

 

 

Operating system:Windows 7 Professional (64 bit) Service Pack 1

System root: C:\Windows

Available physical memory: 3792 MB

CPU: Intel® Core i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz

Drive Info:

C: 279.05 GB

Q: 17.58 GB

Internet Explorer: 11.0

[xilolee]

Download speed depends by your ISP bandwith and the servers bandwith from which you are downloading the file.

As an example, if you have got 640kbit/s of downstream bandwidth from your ISP, your max download speed will be 80kB/s... But if server(s) bandwith (from which you are downloading the file) is 640kbit/s, you'll receive max 80kB/s, even if you have got 1Gbit/s (max download speed 128MB/s).

[16ngr1]

But how to test the server bandwidth/downstream bandwidth?

How can I increase the bandwidth to download faster?

[xilolee]

You can check your ISP bandwidth through any speedtest website present on the WWW, like as an example http://speedtest.net

You can check the max download speed of a server simply downloading a file directly from that server.

Anyway, if that server bandwidth is 80kB/s, and the file you are searching for is present only on that server, you can't in any way increase its speed.

[16ngr1]

I know that website allows me to test speed, but in the download manager sometimes it downloads things at a good speed and then goes down to zero. Why is that?

[xilolee]

Are you using any other softwares that are using your connection?

P2P programs, as an example.

Does your connection "go down" (loss of connection), when the download stops itself?

Anyway, you could resume your download, if it stopped.