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Any Number of Connections GetBot downloads at the full speed of your Internet connection, and can get files even faster with multiple simultaneous connections. By default, GetBot will download 3 files at once. Given a big list of files to get, GetBot will start downloading the first 3. When one of them is done, GetBot will download the next one. This way, it's always getting 3 at a time. You can change this number to just get one at a time, or to get more. GetBot offers this feature without putting an upper limit on the number. It's more efficient to download files several at a time. The faster the Internet connection, the more efficient it is to get more files at once. |
Change this number in GetBot Options to get 1 file at a time, 10, or as many as you want. |
Even Within the Same File You can use a similar feature to get a single file faster than possible with a traditional download. Right-click a file that's downloading in GetBot and choose Get. GetBot will open a new connection within the file, downloading it from the middle and the start. There's no limit to the number of connections with this feature either. GetBot can download 5 files at a time, download one file with 5 connections, or download 5 files at a time with 5 connections each. Before downloading a file from the Internet, GetBot checks to see if it's already in the Internet Explorer cache. If you've just browsed to a Web site with Internet Explorer, the pages and images of the site are probably already saved there. This is why some files in GetBot seem to download instantly. |
GetBot is downloading this file with 6 connections. It's getting it from 5 places inside as well as from the start. |
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