i'm only using a dial up(too bad), using flash get makes my download speed at 4.xx kb anyway i'm not using download apz to bost up my download, but to able to continue my download after dc. also running my anti virii and firewall doesn't seem to slow my dl time and my connection, instead it makes my dl faster coz i can monitor which program is connecting and it can block unknown packet send by most dl site which slow your dl time. and my anti virus is always on (trust no one ) even your trusted friend can send a virus.

Well one way you speed up your downloads is that you get a download accelerator which will find more sources which will increase your download speed. or another is that u use a download manager

If you have a long download, though, you might as well disable your virus protection and let it sit there. <_< >_> 'Cause, you know, nobody will try to break into your computer. People are too nice for that. xP

But yeah, I find bittorrent to be particularly helpful... as well as GetRight. >_> Though it only allows 5 simultaneous connections to one source....

Well, I agree withg the Download Manager/Accelerator part, I use Getright, although it's not free it doen't block you from Downloading, it gives you an option to pay or to continue the use. Also, I use the Mozilla Firefox, built in downloading management, it's pretty fast, anyway, so I use it.

Although the download manager in Mozilla Firefox works fine, I find it a bit basic. It may be better to download a more functional one rather than to use the built-in download manager for Firefox.

But I'm not sure if a new program would interfere with the built-in one in any way. Will it?

I thought the standard was a bit. It makes sense that they sell 384 kilobit/s cheapter than 1 megabit/s. Or at least it does in my head. Mega > Kilo. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that's the case.

and 250,00 bytes is not 250kb.

base 2 unit 2^10 bytes in a Kb
in other words 1024 bytes to the kb.

so its more like

245kbps

No you are quite right minnieadkins. The standard download/upload speeds are measured in KiloBITS and MegaBITS as opposed to what most of us think. Thus, the actual download speed in our well recognized KiloByte/MegaByte format would be, what you get by dividing this KiloBit/MegaBit figure by 8.

As you can see it applies to both Kbps and Mbps. According to this, 384Kbps/s would obviously be cheaper than 1Mbps/s

384Kbps / 8 = 48KiloBytes/s
1Mbps ( 1024Kbps ) / 8 = 128KiloByte/s

You can clearly make out from these figures which is the faster connection and therefore should cost more

i dont understand the connection speeds! for example 512kps broadband connection speed is suppose to be fast but the download speed dont even reach 512kps each second! the downloads only reaches about 50kps maximum! why call it 512kps when u only download at 50kps?!!!!

Thats because that 512Kbps (Kilobit per second) = ( 512 / 8 ) = approx. 64KiloByte per second effective download speed is NOT SHARED by you alone and split into probably 100's of neighbouring home.. None of the service providers ever mention that, the particular 512Kbps connection is NOT DEDICATED to you..they just mention their avg. backbone speed and let it off at that - leaving all the subscribers to make whatever meaning they can, out of it