internet accelerator??
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does anyone how internet accelerators work, if they do, and what it would take to make a simple program to boost internet speed? I have dsl and have seen a lot of programs that claim to speed internet speed and thought i would try to make one of my own (mostly for fun). any help, includeing websites tutorial or ideas would be greatly appreciated. thank you in advance for the help and happy new year! - Kyle
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does anyone how internet accelerators work, if they do, and what it would take to make a simple program to boost internet speed? I have dsl and have seen a lot of programs that claim to speed internet speed and thought i would try to make one of my own (mostly for fun). any help, includeing websites tutorial or ideas would be greatly appreciated. thank you in advance for the help and happy new year! - Kyle
gr8coaster329 wrote:
does anyone how internet accelerators work
Generally when a big file is downloaded say 1MB, the internet explorer downloads the file using one single socket i.e. serially, The problem with this approch is that the data back should come to you without wasting the bandwidth i.e. There should be no time gab between 2 packets. So the accelerators opens more than one socket and downloads the file from different part of the file, i.e partial download, partial download is possible in http1.1 and also the server should support the partial download. Downloading the same file from different offset, to some extend improves the bandwith utilization and hence improves the download time.
gr8coaster329 wrote:
any help, includeing websites tutorial or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Check the GET HTTP request for more info, You might need to know the HTTP protocol for this too. or google "partial get request" Partial request can also be achived using FTP protocol, so the download accelerators uses either FTP or HTTP depending on the location of the content i.e. on http server or ftp server.
-Prakash