Download finishs at 2GB

[Elliot]

I find that the download finishs at 2GB when I download rather large iso
files such as Visual Studio Express / Linux.
What's going on?

 

[On the Bridge]

use a download manager like this www.freedownloadmanager.org
or flashget

www.flashget.com/en/download.htm

both are free

 

[Elliot]

I don't want to use 3rd party softwares.

use a download manager like this www.freedownloadmanager.org
or flashget

www.flashget.com/en/download.htm

both are free

 

[Richard G. Harper]

If you're downloading to an external drive, or a drive formatted with FAT32,
that will be the maximum allowed download size by FAT32. Save files to an
NTFS formatted drive.

 

[Elliot]

My Vista is NTFS.

If you're downloading to an external drive, or a drive formatted with
FAT32, that will be the maximum allowed download size by FAT32. Save
files to an NTFS formatted drive.

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I find that the download finishs at 2GB when I download rather large iso
files such as Visual Studio Express / Linux.
What's going on?

 

[Bob Willard]

If you're downloading to an external drive, or a drive formatted with
FAT32, that will be the maximum allowed download size by FAT32. Save
files to an NTFS formatted drive.

Uh, the max. file size under FAT32 is ~4GB. The max. file size under
FAT16 is ~2GB. And, for the sake of completeness, the max. file size
under FAT12 is ~16MB.

 

[Andrew Rossmann]

I find that the download finishs at 2GB when I download rather large iso
files such as Visual Studio Express / Linux.
What's going on?

Just how and what are you using for the download? It almost sounds like
something is using a signed 32-bit integer, which has a range of +/-2G.
It could even the the server you are downloading from, or your ISP
limiting you.

 

[On the Bridge]

I don't want to use 3rd party softwares.

then I guess you will be stuck with the problem...

Hope you get used to it