Orbit Problems 2

[Daniel_Almighty89]

I'm posting the following for the second time:

I'm having difficulties with the Orbit Downloader. Most of the rapidshare URLs that I try to download from give me corrupt files, with a volume of roughly 30KB. These URLs work when I download them using the browser. Has anybody else encountered such difficulties? What can be done?

I have a premium account and it's logged in. I won't give an example of a URL which I can't download in respect to the forum rules, but it applies to 99% of them.

[aedipuss]

don't use orbit.

[Four Fifth]

Go to rapidshare premium zone then under settings make sure you this one checked

Direct downloads, requested files are saved without redirection via RapidShare

[Daniel_Almighty89]

It was already checked. Why not use Orbit? It used to be fine, enabling me to download in top speed and with minimal fuss.

[aedipuss]

orbit was ok until one of their updates 3-4 months ago. it got more intrusive and less helpful.

just click on the download link and save the file without it. orbit doesn't improve download speed at all.

[jagabo]

Orbit, and programs like it, can increase your download speed by opening multiple connections and downloading different parts of the file via each connection.

For example, say a server has 100 Mb/s upload bandwidth. There are 100 users downloading files, one connection each. So each is getting 1 Mb/s. You come along and open four connections. Now there are 104 connections so each connection is getting about 0.96 Mb/s each. Four of those are yours so you're getting about 3.86 Mb/s while everyone else is getting only 0.96.

But many servers will limit you to a single connection so you'll get no improvement in download speed.

[Daniel_Almighty89]

The problem is more general- every download manager I downloaded had the same problem. When I download it regularly, I download the real file but get very poor speed- about 70KB/s compared to the usual 900KB/s. It's now clear this problem is not exclusive to Orbit. Seems like something is wrong with the settings, but I have no idea what.