Speeding up daily updating

[desmond humphrey <hum@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I  am adding the following tickers to my metastock database on a daily
basis.  But  it  takes  around  5  minutes  to complete the job on 650
tickers. How can I speed the downloader when updating the database?

ABACUS,02/10/2000,.18,.16,.16,44640
ABCPLUS,02/10/2000,.12,.12,.12,10000
ABI,02/10/2000,51.4,51,51.1,9968
ABIL,02/10/2000,15.2,14.85,15.15,1929742
ABSA,02/10/2000,29.2,28,28,690883