Re: What is the optimal settings for best download bandwidth

[Wild Willy]

You've got the same speed connection that I used to have. I understand the problems you can face.
Even though I now have a much faster connection, I have found that most sites do indeed throttle
their service. That makes sense since a site couldn't afford to let one or a few users monopolize
their capacity. But YouTube is easily the worst of all. The stuff I download from there uses no
more bandwidth than I used to get on my slow connection.

With a slower connection, you can still launch a bunch of downloads to run concurrently & each one
will get only a fraction of your overall bandwidth. And those fractions aren't usually equal. It
seems like some downloads get a larger fraction than others running at the same time.
Nevertheless, you can run a bunch of downloads at the same time & watch each of them take hours.
Or you can run them in single file & they'll probably add up to the same aggregate time. This
really has nothing to do with VDH parameters. VDH uses whatever bandwidth you have & there's
nothing you can do to make things download faster.

Now, when you start talking about aggregating & converting, that has nothing to do with bandwidth &
everything to do with your hardware. You'll have to experiment with the relevant VDH multitasking
parameters to see what works best on your system. I have found that in general, if either of those
processes requires more than a few seconds, your CPU will go to 100% usage for an extended period.
I have found that on my Windows 7 system, it remains responsive despite the extreme CPU usage. But
every system is different so you'll just have to experiment.