2 Downloads/Connections per user.

[NeHoX]

Like the subject says.

When a friend of mine is downloading music from my HFS. He can only download 2 songs at a time. When he clicks on the third one, this one begins right after one of the first 2 is finished.

In the limits drop down menu everything is disabled. He should be able to download more than 2 songs at a time.

Thnx in advance

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[TSG]

I can confirm this, no more than 2 files can be downloaded simultaneously.

[rejetto]

Try using a different browser and see if the result vary.
HFS cannot force the browser to use more connections.

[Alons0]

May be the browser is cause this problem.

[NeHoX]

Try using a different browser and see if the result vary.
HFS cannot force the browser to use more connections.

Why don't i have the same problem when i use a normal webhostinging software like WAMP. At the left bottom of the program screen it also says something with 2 connections all the time.... Why does my friend need to use something different then IE7? IE7 is mostly used.

[rejetto]

what test did you do using apache?

[bacter]

IE 7 and firefox limit the trafic to 2 simultaneous connections to one server-ip or proxy.

It seems to be a http1.1 recomendation. There are some patches that can change this values in the net.

But in case of a home-server (even with a good DSL) the total troughput will not increase significantly with more connections, it may even decrease as each connection needs resources.

[NeHoX]

IE 7 and firefox limit the trafic to 2 simultaneous connections to one server-ip or proxy.

Can you point me in the right direction to "upgrade" this to more simultaneous connections? TIA!

[bacter]

I regret, I can't, because I never recomend a program or patch that was not tested by me or a reliable friend of mine.

Try to google for example with "explorer conection limit" ... good luck!

But don't forget that's not on serverside where the limit is - the limit is on client side. ¿do you want that your visitors patch or modify their explorers only to download more files simultaneously. If your upload-speed isn't  higher than some 100 kBps your visitors won't have any benefit from having more conections. When a users conection download-speed is higher than your upload bandwidth, more conections will only slow down data-flow.

[Foggy]

instead of downloading a patch that could possibly do damage to your computer, I suggest that your friend and everyone else just use a download manager that is designed for multiple downloads/connection.

[TSG]

Agreed, using a download manager and removing 'prevent leeching' opens HFS up to better performance. A speed increase from 12KB\s to 140KB\s from Giant Eagles server

And anyway, downloading 2 files at the same time wont make them download any quicker lol, one after the other will have the same effect, hence with a download manager you can queue up files

[Giant Eagle]

Ye, im with TSG here.

The best way to download multiple files, is to download them with a download manager (Queue) or the whole folder at once "~folder.tar"

[NeHoX]

I found a possible way to remove the client side connection limit...

It's a simple registry patch, if people are interested in the code let me know.