The image below should explain what IDM is doing, every blue bar is a single connection:Ī nice feature of the IDM is that you can drag and drop your downloads after downloading them:ĭownload Internet Download Manager (Shareware) Normally, you’re just using a single connection to download files and that single connection can be limited by the server. How does it work? Much like the Youtube video accelerator (to speed up Youtube buffering) the download manager IDM is building up several connections to a download. Some people have reported that IDM can increase the download speed 5 times. The built-in download manager of Firefox and Co are usually slower than other download managers. So, basically you are replacing the download manager of Firefox or Internet Explorer with IDM. When it’s finally installed, IDM will take over all downloads (you can add exceptions).

Apparently, download managers can speed up your download speed quite a lot, it can even happen that they double the download speed for certain downloads!Īfter installing IDM, you’ll have to restart your browser quickly: IDM stands for Internet Download Manager.

If you have, here’s another great tip to speed up your download speed in Windows 7! Have you read our tips how to speed up the internet connection in Windows 7?.