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Limiting Download Spreeds?

  • 21-01-2009 08:46PM
    #1
    im...LOST
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭


    Hey all.

    I'm currently downloading some trials and stuff from Adobe's site and they are pretty big files but I need them kinda sharpish for my college course. The problem is I seem to be downloading at full speed and my friends are trying to browse and stream videos at the same time and I'm getting the full speeds.

    Is there like a FireFox add-on or something that could mean that say I get 200kb/s out of the possible 500kb/s or something like that?

    Thanks in advance!


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  • #2
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,945 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    im...LOST wrote: »
    Hey all.

    I'm currently downloading some trials and stuff from Adobe's site and they are pretty big files but I need them kinda sharpish for my college course. The problem is I seem to be downloading at full speed and my friends are trying to browse and stream videos at the same time and I'm getting the full speeds.

    Is there like a FireFox add-on or something that could mean that say I get 200kb/s out of the possible 500kb/s or something like that?

    Thanks in advance!

    http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

    It's free, includes a Firefox plugin and includes rate limiting options.


  • #3
    im...LOST
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭im...LOST


    It doesn't seem to be Mac friendly unfortunately. Thanks for the help though. Does anyone else have any suggestions?


  • #4
    im...LOST
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭im...LOST


    Firefox Throttle 1.03 seems to be what I want but again, it's not Mac friendly.

    *sigh*


  • #5
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    im...LOST wrote: »
    Firefox Throttle 1.03 seems to be what I want but again, it's not Mac friendly.

    *sigh*

    Try the Mac Section m8, Maybe someone there would know of a Mac downloader with this functionality or simularly a mac firefox extension

    Nick

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