[thymios]

I'm sorry i am asking this again, but i couldn't find it from a quick search i did on the forum. What was that registry tweak that allows you to make IE handle more than 2-3 concurrent downloads at any time?

[Davros]

This sets the max connections to 16. Set the dword to whatever values you want, remember it is in hex.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:00000010
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:00000010

[Admiral LSD]

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I'm sorry i am asking this again, but i couldn't find it from a quick search i did on the forum. What was that registry tweak that allows you to make IE handle more than 2-3 concurrent downloads at any time?

Use GetRight

[Alien]

Don't know the answer to that 1, however I use Mass Downloader. The latest versioin is a pain - I foget why I didn't decide to stick with it & went back to v1.2.95, but it's a good prog - I think they also make a free IE plug in that does a similar job.....

Ah - just had a read of their website & apparently the plugin version doesn't appear to include the queing function, which definitely comes in handy. It may still allow you to do multiple downloads though.

[thymios]

Thanks a lot for the tip. I use getright already but there are some sites that don't allow download managers to work. As a result if you donwload something with getright you get an error message instead of the file. Damn scripts!!

[Alien]

I find that there aren't that many I can't get with Mass Downloader. If it's a small file - less than 5MB - & it doesn't wanna download with MD then I usually just do it the normal way through IE. If it's bigger & especially if it's 1 of several files, or if it starts to download in IE but it goes really slow, then I will do my best to find the true path to the file so that I can get MD to download it. 1 trick I use in these circumstances is to use GoZilla [it's about the only useful thing GoZilla can do!]. I don't actually download the file with GZ, I just get it to detect the true URL of the file so that I can copy'n'paste it to MD.

Another reason I like MD is that it uses multi-threading to increase the efficiency & speed of the download [upto the maximum of your bandwidth - assuming the computer @ the other end can actually send that fast :)]

[Admiral LSD]

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Thanks a lot for the tip. I use getright already but there are some sites that don't allow download managers to work. As a result if you donwload something with getright you get an error message instead of the file. Damn scripts!!

I've found setting your GetRight User Agent to that of a real web browser (having the program tell the server that "GetRight" is downloading the file is a dead giveaway...) and telling it to generate a referrer from the download URL helps a lot when getting files from sites like that.

Alien: GetRight can do that multithreaded downloading thing too it's just made user-selectable by default. It can be set up to be automatic but for smaller downloads (say, less than 100Mb) it's just not worth it.

[Alien]

That depends on how slow the download is going as a single threaded action, & how urgently you need the file. Plus MD's queing function & the fact that with the right settings it will keep trying to get the file until it gets it [for example if you keep losing connection to the server @ the other end], without having to start again from the beginning [well, that works on 99% of servers - some block resuming, in which case it would have to start over].