I'm sure you've experienced the free download sites that throw boatloads of ads in your face and make your downloads excruciatingly slow unless you pay a possibly-not-so-small amount of money to upgrade to the "premium" experience. I've discovered an interesting method of speeding up these throttled downloads, at least a little bit:
Close the tab that created the download. In my experience, once the tab is closed and the connection is severed to the controlling web site, the download speeds up. The only reason I can imagine for this is that they don't want to risk giving their paying customers slow speeds, so once the HTTP session is lost, the speed goes back to normal. Of course, it should be very easy to have different servers for the different groups, so maybe it's just a placebo. Try it though - it might help somewhere.
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