Tips & Tricks

Smarter Downloads

Let's say you want to download a program and you're offered several different places to download from (Microsoft likes to do this). Which do you pick? Most people would choose the one that's closest to their geographic location. WRONG!

Here's the way I usually decide. I first look at the time zones the sites are in and hit the one that would be in the least busy time zone. In other words, if it's 8:00AM in my time zone, but 5:00AM in another, more westerly time zone, I'll pick that one.

If it looks like I'm in prime time no matter what time zone I'm in (say it's 3:00PM my time) then I'll probably pick the last or second to last choice. People seem to pick the first or second link, so usually the further down the "link list" you go, the less traffic you encounter.

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