A Parallel Downloading Study of Local Area Network at Universiti Utara Malaysia

This paper gives a study on parallel downloading of UUM‘s network performance. It considers the response time of the downloaded files from within UUM‘s local network to the outside Internet connection. In order to study the performance of downloading method, other methods will be used as a comparison. The other downloading methods that have been used are single connection (Internet browser using Firefox) and Network Neighborhood (NetBIOS). Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) is used to implement the parallel downloading method. Response time of each method is recorded from three different sessions which are at the morning, evening and night time. The result of this research will benefit all the Internet users within UUM‘s network to plan the time and the most suitable downloading method that can give the best performance.