These days, a lot of applications are hosted on Sourceforge. Almost all of them gave me slow speeds (around 2-5% of my max download speed), so I started looking for a trick to increase it, and finally discovered one. Now, my downloads from it are 90-95% of my download speeds.

The Trick

  • While you are downloading a file, click on the link “try another mirror.”

- When it asks for a mirror, click on “autoselect”

  • You will be back on the download, but it will download a lot faster.

Alternative tip
There is also another workaround. Just add?use_mirror=autoselect after the link.