Comprehensive FlashGet Internet Express download acceleration

When using FlashGet to download software and materials, of course, I hope that the faster the better. Is there any good way to improve the download speed of FlashGet? In fact, set up FlashGet, you will find that FlashGet can download these software faster, saving valuable time and money!

First, use the mirror function

Files on the Internet are generally mirrored on multiple sites, the download speed from each site is different, if you download from a more recent place usually Soon, for example, downloading files from a domestic server is usually much faster than a foreign server. FlashGet can download the same file from different servers and download it from one or more faster sites. If one server has problems, it will automatically switch to other mirror sites to download. In order to download as fast as possible. This is the mirroring feature in FlashGet.

1. Allow mirroring function

First select "Tools" → "Options" → "Mirror" and check "Open Mirror" (check box), then under the "Region" In the "Country Code" of the location, enter the code of the Internet of the country where the user is located, such as CN for China, US for the United States, and JP for Japan. Here, we enter CN to represent China. In this way, when FlashGet downloads software or materials, it will first search for these mirror stations from Chinese servers and select the nearest server to download the data.

Enter a list of countries with faster links in the "Country List", such as JP, KR, RU, etc. The Internet Express gives priority to the next level of the "country code" when calculating the alternate URL.

Tips

★ Generally speaking, the servers in countries with geographical proximity are relatively faster. However, for domestic users, countries with direct Internet links should be faster. For example, users accessing servers in the United States are better than servers in Taiwan.

★ Enter JP, KR, RU in the “Country Code” under “Country List” for Japan, Korea and Russia. Multiple country codes are separated by a comma, which means that when FlashGet can't find a mirror server on a Chinese server, it will automatically download software from mirror servers in Japan, South Korea, and Russia. Of course, fill in the nearest country. Code.

★ The country and its code correspondence table, you can refer to the FlashGet help file.

2. Allow automatic calculation and addition of mirror sites

Check (as shown in Figure 1) the "Automatically calculate and add mirror URLs" checkbox when you are from some generic server or they When downloading data on the mirror site (such as SimTel.Net or TUCOWS), FlashGet will automatically calculate their mirror site and download the data from the nearest server. It is recommended that you select this option.

when using FlashGet download software and data, of course, hope that the faster the better. Is there any good way to improve the download speed of FlashGet? In fact, set up FlashGet, you will find that FlashGet can download these software faster, saving valuable time and money!

First, use the mirror function

Files on the Internet are generally mirrored on multiple sites, the download speed from each site is different, if you download from a more recent place usually Soon, for example, downloading files from a domestic server is usually much faster than a foreign server. FlashGet can download the same file from different servers and download it from one or more faster sites. If one server has problems, it will automatically switch to other mirror sites to download. In order to download as fast as possible. This is the mirroring feature in FlashGet.

1. Allow mirroring function

First select "Tools" → "Options" → "Mirror" and check "Open Mirror" (check box), then under the "Region" In the "Country Code" of the location, enter the code of the Internet of the country where the user is located, such as CN for China, US for the United States, and JP for Japan. Here, we enter CN to represent China. In this way, when FlashGet downloads software or materials, it will first search for these mirror stations from Chinese servers and select the nearest server to download the data.

Enter a list of countries with faster links in the "Country List", such as JP, KR, RU, etc. The Internet Express gives priority to the next level of the "country code" when calculating the alternate URL.

Tips

★ Generally speaking, the servers in countries with geographical proximity are relatively faster. However, for domestic users, countries with direct Internet links should be faster. For example, users accessing servers in the United States are better than servers in Taiwan.

★ Enter JP, KR, RU in the “Country Code” under “Country List” for Japan, Korea and Russia. Multiple country codes are separated by a comma, which means that when FlashGet can't find a mirror server on a Chinese server, it will automatically download software from mirror servers in Japan, South Korea, and Russia. Of course, fill in the nearest country. Code.

★ The country and its code correspondence table, you can refer to the FlashGet help file.

2. Allow automatic calculation and addition of mirror sites

Check (as shown in Figure 1) the "Automatically calculate and add mirror URLs" checkbox when you are from some generic server or they When downloading data on the mirror site (such as SimTel.Net or TUCOWS), FlashGet will automatically calculate their mirror site and download the data from the nearest server. It is recommended that you select this option.

Tips

★ let FlashGet know more mirror sites

By default, the directory under FlashGet There are two text files, mirrow.lst and mymirrow.lst, which can be opened via "Notepad". Among them, mirrow.lst records the mirror list of the default download site of FlashGet, and mymirrow.lst is the mirror list of the user-defined download site (in the initial state, only the description will be given in the file). Therefore, we can move our minds on this file and manually add mirror sites to make FlashGet download faster!

For example: I often download drivers from mydrivers.com, but mydrivers.com does not have a mirror station in Shanghai. At this time, we just need to open the mymirrow.lst file and add the mirror site of mydrivers.com. In this file, just check the "Automatically calculate and add mirror URL" checkbox, FlashGet will automatically identify the mirror site of the mydrivers.com site we added, so you can download mydrivers from the faster site. Driver on com.

★ Internet Express can download the same file from different servers. The Internet Express will download from one or more faster sites. If one server has a problem, it will automatically switch to another mirror site to download.

★ Before reinstalling FlashGet, don't forget to make a backup of the mymirrow.lst file in the FlashGet installation folder, so that you can re-install FlashGet and then copy it back.
Second, use FTP search server

We know that the files on the Internet are generally mirrored on multiple sites, how to find the user's recent mirror site has become an important FlashGet high-speed download factor. To this end, FlashGet provides the FTP Search (FTP Search Server) function, through the FTP search server can find the most recently mirrored website in many users download requests. But unfortunately, the default FTP search server in FlashGet (http://www.alltheweb.com/search?advanced=1&cat=ftp&q=&jsact=&cs=utf-8&ftype=6&ld=&lp=&ls1=&ls2=&hits=&matches =&hitsprmatch=) The files found are generally located abroad and sometimes do not make much sense for domestic users. However, as long as we can use the Skynet FTP search function to achieve high-speed multi-site concurrent download: in the window of Figure 1, check "Automatically find the mirror site through Ftp search", and then select the original in the "Server Bar" Address, delete, write the skynet FTP address http://bingle.pku.edu.cn/scripts/ftp_search.exe? SearchType=1&word=

&FromSize=&ToSize=&MaxHits=).

Tips

★In the education network, various movies and music resources are extremely rich, but the education network is slower. This method can significantly improve the speed of search and quick download.

★When creating a new download task, you should also select the “Allow alternate URLs via image list file and FTP lookup function” option after entering the download address (see Figure 2).

★ because smaller files are generally some html files and picture files, which generally do not have a mirror site, Ftp Search function if you are using will not find out not only a waste of resources, but the speed will slow down . Therefore, an appropriate value, typically 800 KB, can be entered after the "Minimum Size of File to Start Ftp Search Function" in Figure 1.

★ In the "Maximize the number of files found", you can enter the number of image files returned by Ftp Search. The default is 40. It is enough. Too many are not good.

★ After checking the “Automatically select the best site download” checkbox, FlashGet can use the Ping function to judge the speed of each site so that you can select a faster site to download. But if you are using a proxy server to access the Internet (such as LAN users), FlashGet can't ping through, then you should remove the option. Moreover, even without this option, FlashGet will choose a faster site based on the speed of the connection and download.

III. Shared URL Address

As mentioned above, the files found by the FTP search server are generally located abroad and sometimes have little meaning for domestic users. To this end, FlashGet has launched a special file mirroring service for FlashGet that is very beneficial to domestic users. Just check "Automatically find the mirror site through FlashGet's file mirroring service", and then check the "Share URLs" check box to enjoy the FlashGet file mirroring service to improve the download speed.

If a FlashGet user shares the URL of the downloaded file when downloading, then when other users download the same file, they will have a mirrored address. This is a reciprocal process. If you provide a shared address (URL), other users can get the information, and when you download it, you will also get the address (URL) provided by other users.

The shared address (URL) is an option in FlashGet. The more users share the address (URL), the better the file mirror service database of FlashGet, the more image service sites are found. The more likely it is to download from the fastest site.

Tips

★FlashGet only starts the service for EXE files or some compressed files ZIP, RAR, etc. Web pages and images are not used.

★ For confidentiality, if a site requires a username/password, the service will not be used.

★To use this feature, the files in the downloaded address must be at least 100KB large.

★ In order to protect privacy and security, if the address contains personal, private, members or secret, http://Your.server.com/private/file.exe will not use this service.

★When using this service to find the mirror address, FlashGet will only issue the file name and file size to be downloaded. If you select the option of shared address, the address (URL) of the downloaded file will also be sent. The URL will be added to FlashGet's image service database for other users, and no other personal information will be sent.

★ Although the files found by the FTP search server are generally located abroad, sometimes it does not make much sense for domestic users, but the author will cooperate with the domestic software sites to achieve the function of automatically adding domestic mirror sites.