Aug092012

Why does my internet become slow when I download something with the help of IDM?

Bibek Kunwar asks:

My internet goes low when I download something with the help of IDM. Is there any solution.


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Vipul Jain

August 9, 2012

other than limiting speed in IDM, no you cannot do anything else.
IDM is designed to suck up every last juice of bandwidth you have :D

Douglas Mutay

Yeah!

October 31, 2012
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Lambvolution

August 9, 2012

try to set max connection number to 2 or 4
Options – Connection – set default max. conn. number – choose 2 or 4

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Alan Wade

August 9, 2012

It depends on your internet account, as in what speed are you paying for?
I have IDM and it dosnt effect my internet at all.

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Asif Mistry

August 9, 2012

IDM takes up all your bandwidth and leaves nothing for Surfing that’s why internet speed slows down but download speed is increased

You can limit download speed in IDM or download FreeDownloadManager which has three different downloading mode.

Next please google before asking.

Alan Wade

No it dosnt! I have never suffered while surfing and downloading with IDM.
And dont tell the ops to Google an answer, they ask, we answer!

August 9, 2012
Bibek Kunwar

Thanks

August 10, 2012
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Pankaj Lakhani

August 11, 2012

Well, if you are downloading something, then all your speed will be taken by IDM. You can limit the speed accordingly so as you will not be disturbed while surfing your internet and you can download as well without wait..

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Adjei Kofi

August 13, 2012

It depends on the speed of your connection. IDM is designed to use up most of the bandwidth. So you would have to subscribe for a higher bandwidth speed.

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Hanamichi Kurotsuchi

August 15, 2012

of course this will happen, because IDM will grab every single bit that your internet has in order to download the file, if you want to do anther work while downloading, just pause the idm download , after finish, resume the download

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jrasulev

August 21, 2012

No surprise. It happens with all download manager, just try to limit speed of downloading and limit number of active downloads

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Mauro Vitali

August 21, 2012

no, there isn’t!
IDM occupy bandwidth so your internet connection seem slower to you…
you can decrease the max connection of the program…
that will leave to you a bandwidth a little “larger”

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Usman Mubashir

August 22, 2012

IDM uses extra slots to download a file, you can limit the bandwidth allocated to IDM to resolve this problem with the effect that IDM will download slowly.

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Raja Pradeep

October 15, 2012

Because IDM takes all the Bandwidth. But you can limit your download speed while downloading the file.

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JB Tugano

October 29, 2012

If you want to speed up Internet Connection While downloading files w/ IDM, Go to Speed Limiter, If you Have PLDT You can Set it to 50kbps, But if you have modem 3.6 mbps only you need to set in 10-20kbps depending on your speed

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kumar raja

November 23, 2012

Because IDM is used to Faster ur Download and it will sucks the all the Bandwidth so, u cant get speed

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Abba Jee

November 25, 2012

because it makes i guess 8 connections to one single file your downloading, use most of ur bandwidth while its on work, you can use speed limiter function to deal with this issue :)