rick2517 said:
At times last year, I downloaded 3 or 4 files at the same time. I
can no
longer download more than 2 files at once. How can I change the
setting that
will allow me to download more than 2 files from the internet at the
same
time?
Regardless of the registry hacks mentioned that let your browser allow
more than the default 2 concurrent connects, that does nothing to
alter a site that restricts how many concurrent connections you are
allowed to there. When you connect, your IP address is known even if
you use a proxy (because whatever connects to the end host will have
its IP address known so the end host knows to where the requested
traffic is to get sent). All they have to do is establish a quota in
their server that says no IP address can have more than 2 concurrent
connections. So even if you configure your web browser to allow 10 or
20 concurrent connections, the site doesn't care and will still
enforce their quota for max concurrent connects from the same IP
address. For example, I have mine set up for 10 concurrent
connections, but when downloading from the mirror sites for openSUSE
or Fedora Redhat, all I can get are 2 concurrent downloads. They
don't want you eating up all their bandwidth with too many concurrent
connections so they restrict them.
You never mentioned if the concurrent downloads are from the same or
different site. If from the same site, they can still restrict how
many concurrent connects they will allow to your IP address. It's not
your choice. There are some game sites (forums) where you can
download fan missions (i.e., user-designed missions) but they restrict
you to only one download and even have a max per-day byte quota, too.
They want to make sure all their users get some bandwidth and restrict
how piggish are some of the wannabe abusers. I know some users that
want to have a dozen concurrent connects to a newsgroup server but all
they get is 2 to 4 because that's what the NNTP server will restrict
them to.
