Most Interent Service providers are notoriously known for not only their false misleading advertsing, but also for their bad support servcies, and for lying, and falsey blaming their customers, the users for the supposedly main problem that the promised ISP high speed downloads are rarely realized, obtained now. ISP have over advertised gennerally their ability to deliver the capacities. and their rotoo often old, obslete servciers, equipment often cannot handle the loads.

“there are many safe programs out there that take a cap off of your file download bandwitdth limit, one i used to use is called “internet download manager” i believe. i was getting 250 avg kbps dl speed on some random website, wouldnt ever go above 280, but i used the program and went up to a consistent 370. can’t hurt to try it.” That is not the main issue.. the fact that the ISP providers such as the Canadian Bell Sympatico clearly are not providing their promised high speed is.. Most customer with bell do not have their promised speeds so they next switch over to a cable DSl.

“I would recommend that you look at your router first (if you have one). It may be faulty. This is often the case for screwed up internet connections. If you can, try to connect your modem (temporarily) to your computer without the router and see if that fixes the problem. (You will have to reconfigure the computer to use the modem in order to try this). The problem unlikley could also be with your modem, if it is faulty. Yet another place where things more likley could cause a slowdown is your signal strength that you are getting from your ISP. You might also have line noise causing your internet to go slow.” I would run a speed test Speakeasy – Speed Test Test the speed of your internet connection with Speakeasy’s speed test. http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ – For a high speed servcie the spped should be between 6000 to 1600 and for a low speed system about 3000 and if you are not getting these speeds complaing lould to the news media. your isp as well ASAP

“The following applies to broadband connections: Back again to uncapping; you can use a program called CableNut to uncap the limits that are built into your XP and your network card. http://cablenut.com/ Make sure you download the CableNut Add On Package and use the highest possible setting” is still only a marginal solution approach when the main problem is your ISP not keeping their promised high speed to you.

Optional suggestions such as -

Using a Flash Drive or a software to supposedly “Dramatically speed up any Broadband connection and to get improvements in performance from download speed, with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, ito ncrease your online speed with everything you do, even up to 500% faster Web browsing if using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, while keeping the original perfect web site quality is sill mariginal… Optimizing the Windows and Browsers to give you faster and smoother downloading, browsing, streaming, e-mail, P2P, gaming and yes you check it with Web browsing speed and data download performance tests.
ReadyBoost is a disk caching technology first included with Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. It aims to make computers running Windows Vista more responsive by using flash memory on a USB 2.0 drive, SD card, CompactFlash, or other form of flash memory, in order to boost system performance.

ReadyBoost is also used to facilitate SuperFetch, an updated version of Windows XP’s prefetcher which performs analysis of boot-time disk usage patterns and creates a cache which is used in subsequent system boots.[1] The Prefetcher is a component of versions of Microsoft Windows starting with Windows XP. It is a component of the Memory manager that speeds up the Windows boot process, and shortens the amount of time it takes to start up programs. In Windows Vista, SuperFetch and ReadyBoost [1] extend upon the prefetcher and attempt to accelerate application and boot launch times respectively by monitoring and adapting to usage patterns over periods of time and loading the majority of the files and data needed by them into memory so that they can be accessed very quickly when needed.A system with 512 MB of RAM (the minimum for Windows Vista) can see significant gains from ReadyBoost. In one test case speeding up an operation from 11.7 seconds to 2 seconds (increasing physical memory from 512 MB to 1GB reduced it to 0.8 seconds). [2]. Systems with 1 GB or more do not show a significant effect on tests to date. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefetcher

Using a Download manager that speeds up download connections by opening multiple connections to the source file is still a marginal approach now as well.

I looked at cFosSpeed, thats a consumer level app, I need something at the office. NetEnforcer may have gotten some rep in the past, but it isn’t worth a toss, whether you’re dealing with torrents or not.