Only two transfers at a time?

[Fraki]

Why can I not download more than two files at a time from the same domain? I thought that it might've been how the site's server was set up, but it's the same thing no matter which site I'm downloading from.

This problem also works in such a way that if I'm downloading two files from a domain, the site stops functioning also until one of my downloads is done.

[RSaucier]

Are you doing this with Internet Explorer?

[Fraki]

Yup

[RSaucier]

For whatever reason, MS decided to place a connection limit on IE's access. For a while, it was 4 connections. I keep meaning to look for a registry patch that would 'fix' that but, unfortunately, I've never gotten around to it. :)

Nothing's broken, it's just annoying to have broadband but not be able to use it as much as possible with IE :).

[Fraki]

For real? You got to be kidding me... Why did they implement this, was it to conserve servers' loads?

[RSaucier]

It's been around since at least IE4.

I think the reasoning was that by limiting the connections (well, the 'primary' connection) more bandwidth could be used per page to download graphics & such, making the page appear to be loading faster.

Try Opera; you can (or could, I'm still on v5) set how many connections can be used. Works fine for most things, though some sites that make heavy use of IE's DOM look crappy. Then you use IE. :D

[(jj)]

Here is what you are looking for, I think. BUT, a little warning up front.. Don't mess around with your registry if you don't know what you are doing. You can mess up things much worse than just being limited on your number of downloads.

IE Connection Limit

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q183/1/10.ASP

The HTTP 1.0 specification allows for 4 concurrent connections from a browser to a web server. HTTP 1.1 decreases this to 2 concurrent connections, which basically means that up to 2 files can be downloaded at the same time. The more images on a site, the longer it can take to download all of them because of the limit in how many connections can be established. You can tweak the maximum number of connections for Microsoft Internet Explorer by modifying a registry entry, though you are breaking the rules a bit. Some web servers are configured to throttle the number of connections, so it may not work entirely, but it could speed up your general surfing ability. The downside is that on slower Internet connections, you'll have more files downloading at the same time, possibly resulting in slower overall surfing, so it may be not for everyone.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Internet Settings

HTTP 1.1 Servers:
Value Name: MaxConnectionsPerServer
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 2
Notes: 2 is the default, suggested max of 8

HTTP 1.0 Servers:
Value Name: MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 4
Notes: 4 is the default, suggested max of 8

[RSaucier]

Good show! Thanks jj!

[Fraki]

:mad:

[MarkHutch]

In the past our software "WS_FTP PRO" allowed several simultaneous download connections for FTP downloads via our sites on Powweb. However, about two months ago something was changed at Powweb and they now only allow 2 simultaneous download connections per IP on the same server. It's no big problem. It only effects us if we're trying to backup several different sites on the same server at the same time from the same IP address.