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

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**Created:** [March 28, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-setting-in-ie-that-i-can-adjust-to-get-more-downloads-at-once/164725 "2003-03-28T05:44:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-setting-in-ie-that-i-can-adjust-to-get-more-downloads-at-once/164725/1 "2003-03-28T05:44:21Z")

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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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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-setting-in-ie-that-i-can-adjust-to-get-more-downloads-at-once/164725/2 "2003-03-28T06:09:54Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-setting-in-ie-that-i-can-adjust-to-get-more-downloads-at-once/164725/3 "2003-03-28T06:15:08Z")

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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!

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-setting-in-ie-that-i-can-adjust-to-get-more-downloads-at-once/164725/4 "2003-03-28T06:21:06Z")

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I forgot to add - [www.dslreports.com](http://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? 😃