How to Increase Browsing Speed While Downloading

When it comes to downloading large files from internet, you may leave them to download it using some download managers or torrent clients other than your web browser. The problem get notices when you tries to browse web pages while downloading files from internet. The browsing 'll get slow down as the download manager or torrent downloader consumes greater part of your internet bandwidth. The case is even worse if your connection speed is low. There's not much we can do to increase browsing speed while downloading files as it totally depends on internet connection speed but here's some tips that might help to browse without much delay.

1. Use NetBalancer to shape your traffic. 

Consider the case of downloading a huge torrent file, it might take a few hours to complete the download. Usually, torrent clients like uTorrent are standalone applications like internet download managers. NetBalancer is a freeware that can prioritize the bandwidth allocation to various applications that uses the internet connection. 

1. Download and install NetBalancer 

2. Open Netbalancer (assuming your browser and uTorrent already running)

3. In the application, it shows the list of processes that shares the internet connection. To increase upload/download priority for Google chrome, right click on anyone of chrome.exe and click 'High' under both Upload and Download. 

4. Similarly, you need to lower the bandwidth allocation to uTorrent. Right click on uTorrent.exe and click low under both Upload and Download. After you're done it may look like the below screenshot. From now, you must see some improvement in browsing using chrome.

In this fashion you can pull down the bandwidth usage of other applications like internet download managers.

2. Set download limit in Applications

Another way to improve brwsing speed is to set  download limit in applications. For example, if your internet connection gives you a maximum download speed of  64KB/s just put the dsownload limit to 4-50KB/s. Almost all download managers and uTorrent has an option to set download limit to a predetermined level.