Why using idm at internet cafe prohibited?
By deliar
@deliar (609)
Indonesia
October 27, 2011 7:10pm CST
A few days ago, i went to an internet cafe for searching for my task from my teacher.
While searching,suddenly the connection is being off, then it on again and off again.
i were trying to ask the server why, and he said it is because someone using idm,
he said,"it was prohibited here but there are still many people using it."
i do really dont understand about this.
why did idm break the connection at the internet cafe??
please answer.
1 response
@jjzone44 (917)
• United States
28 Oct 11
There could be a lot of reasons that an Internet cafe would not want a person using an Internet Download Manager. They could be downloading pirated material such as movies, using the cafe's IP address so they do not get caught.
The cafe may have a bandwidth quota, and if they exceed it, they have to pay their provider more.
There is a finite amount of bandwidth on any connection. If people are using large amounts of it for IDMs the other users will experience slower performance.
If you are asking how it would work, when the network senses a large file request from a local machine, it attempts to throttle down that bandwidth. In the case you are describing, it interrupts the connection. Unfortunately it seems that in the cafe you were in, the connection was interrupted globally (every computer) instead of locally (only the ones trying to download large files).
