Is there a setting in IE that I can adjust to get more downloads at once?

Factual Questions
1

I am running IE6 with some patches on it.

If I am on a webpage that has several files that are posted as links that I want to download (using “save target as”), IE has historically (same results with IE4 and IE5) only allowed you to download 2 at a time.

I’ve played around with a good portion of the settings in IE but I have never found anywhere to adjust this. Is it possible? Thanks in advance.

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Are you comfy with tweaking your Registry? If not, don’t do this, as you can make your machine unbootable if you goof.

Start the Registry Editor
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Internet Settings
Select New > DWORD Value from the Edit menu
Name the new value MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server
Right-click the MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server value and choose Modify
Under Base, click the radio button next to Decimal
In the Value Data: box enter the number of simultaneous connections you want to set (for example 10 is a good value), and click OK
Repeat steps 3 - 7 using the new value MaxConnectionsPerServer
Exit the registry editor
Reboot

3

I’m riding the fence on being comfy with it. I did it once before for some WinXP performance tweaks but it generally gives me the heebs.

Thanks for the info!

4

I forgot to add - www.dslreports.com is crammed with info on maximizing broadband connections, with connection and tweakage tests, FAQs, tips and a message base. Where do you think I got this # of connections tweak? :smiley: