Can i give Chrome more bandwidth?

rvg90

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I have a 4mb connection and when i am using Twitch for example the transfer rate on my monitor shows 150-250kbps all the time which is about 50% of the connection, and if i download something with Chrome it's the same case it downloads which way less than the full connection speed unless i use a download manager.

Is there any possible way to make Chrome get priority and use 100% of the connection?
 
Looks like we you're misunderstanding how download speeds work. Bandwidth, and your speed, are two different things.

If you feel like reading an analogy about what speed and bandwidth is, read on. Otherwise, I'm going to say that there's no way, per se, to make Google Chrome download anything "faster".

Consider this scenario:

You have a highway that crosses through a tunnel. The tunnel has 4 lanes.

The cars would represent your data (say, something you download), and the cars' speed would represent your Internet connection's speed.
The bandwidth would be the size of the tunnel. In this case, it is four lanes.

It doesn't matter how wide the tunnel is (again, this would represent your bandwidth). If all the cars moved at 3 MP/H (this would be your download speed), what difference would a really wide tunnel make in how fast the cars get to their destination (your download)?

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Hope that makes sense. But anyway, you may have a poor Internet connection, or the site you're trying to download from may just be really slow--it's decided by a whole myriad of factors, really (for example, someone else in your home may be torrenting, which could greatly affect your download speed).

If you want, you could try out the link to a speed test that would roughly gauge your download and upload speed. You could then test the results against your download speed (it shows it in KiloBITS, not KiloBytes per second, btw), and see if there's a correlation between your download speeds, and the estimated download speeds from the website. If only for a piece of mind.

You can find the link here:
http://www.speedtest.net/

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And if I am dead wrong about anything, many pardons.



ALSO if you have DAP installed I figured out a way to use my DAP (download accelerator plus) with chrome. If you open the main DAP window, select TOOLS, select OPTIONS, select ADVANCED, then change it to integrate with CHROME browser. (You may need to update to the latest version of DAP to do this. Not sure if the older version has a chrome option). This makes downloading so much quicker because you take from more than one source at a time.
 


Chrome does not have a speed cap unless it's some addon or something. I download my full line rate all the time with it.
 

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