Local Area Network (LAN) Parallel Downloading : An Experimental Study in Universiti Utara Malaysia

• Main Author: Muhammad Hafiz, Razi
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: TK5101-6720 Telecommunication
• Online Access: http://etd.uum.edu.my/1277/1/MUHAMMAD_HAFIZ_B._RAZI.pdf; http://etd.uum.edu.my/1277/2/1.MUHAMMAD_HAFIZ_B._RAZI.pdf; http://etd.uum.edu.my/1277/

This paper had study the performance of parallel downloading of UUM’s Network. This research will consider the response time of the downloaded file from within UUM’s Local Network to the Internet connection outside. In order to see the performance of parallel downloading method, other method will be used as a comparison. The other downloading methods that have been chosen are single connection (Internet Browser - Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7) and Network Neighborhood (NetBIOS). The parallel downloading method will be using the Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) version 5.3.0.0 software to implement the download. Response time of each method will be recorded from three different sessions which are morning, evening and night. The results of this paper will benefits all the Internet users within the UUM’s Network to know and plans which downloading method is suitable for higher performance on which time of the day.