Increase the number of simultaneous downloads in Internet Explorer 7
Internet Explorer 7 will only allow you to download two files at one time. This limitation can prove to be quite an inconvenience for anyone who downloads quite a lot on the Internet. A simply registry tweak can be done to remove this limitation.
1) Click on the Start Pearl and type regedit in the Search Bar.
2) Once you are in the registry editor, navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
3) Right click in the empty space, and create a new DWord (32-bit) value by choosing
New > DWord Value . Name it:
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server (The 0 beside Server is a zero)
4) Double click this entry and modify the value to 3. (Substitute 3 for the preferred maximum number of downloads)
5) Create another DWord:
MaxConnectionsPerServer
6) Once again, double click this entry and modify the value to 3.
If you have Internet Explorer open, just restart it and you should be able to have more simultaneous downloads running.
Of course, you’re really missing out if you’re not surfing with Firefox.
Really though, sometimes I still surf with IE7 becuase I like how the tabs open next to the current one rather than at the very end.
Source: Arsgeek
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April 20th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Hi,
When I tried creating a new DWord the menu was greyed out - it wouldn’t let me do anything! Any ideas???
Thanks
April 20th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
You need to be an administrator
April 28th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
I already have these 2 DWORD variables there, but their values are 10 (for both) decimal. Any idea what does your value “3″ stands for?
April 29th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
this only allows 3 max?!
April 29th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Here’s an even simpler way to go about getting multiple downloads:
1. type http://www.mozilla.com
2. Download Firefox
3. Use Firefox.
April 29th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Great article! I can’t say I’m fond of the idea of only being able to download two files at a time so this will come in very handy. Cheers.
April 29th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
WTF? The 2 simultaneous connections are mandated by the HTTP spec. Firefox has the same 2 connection limit(you can tweak it in Firefox through about:config but it defaults to 2 just like IE does)
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April 29th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Thanks man you rock.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
@Joe2 ,
Firefox and IE all have maximum limit of 2 connections per server by default. Downloading Firefox is not going to solve the problem.
That limit is part of recommendations from of w3w standard. Of course, this recommendation now does not look very wise. Hopefully, future version of IE and Firefox can change that default setting. It would save a lot of headache for web site designers how to uses different hacks to work around it.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
If you install the Tab Control add-on in Firefox, you can make tabs open next to the current one rather than at the very end.
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April 29th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
You could open a tab next to the current one, through an add-on call .
After installing it and restart of Firefox, go to `Tools’->`Tab Mix Options’. On the `Events’ tab, check `Open new tabs next to the current one’.
There are probably other add-ons those would let you do this, but this one has worked well for me and has been a must-have add-on for my Firefox.
April 30th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Apache web servers, by default, limit the number of connections a user can have to two connections. So changing this setting will have no effect on a majority of sites on the internet.
ekf
April 30th, 2007 at 11:33 am
This is definitely a great tip. I used to do something like this in ie6. This works for people who aren’t using vista as well.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
mh… dose this article consider about RFC ?
i’m not RFCist, but it clearly violate them …
April 30th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
The number of concurrent connections per IP address can also be set by each web server’s administrator. Even if you change the maximum number of connections IE will open with each server, that doesn’t guarantee you won’t hit a limit on any server, particularily those serving files over HTTP or http://FTP.
April 30th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
it’s nice that this tip exists, thx. As for those that keep recommending firefox as a solution - thx, but I think you’re missing the point. Readers to this link are using IE and want to TRY to maximize it. Firefox is great and all that but maybe it’s not something everyone wants.
my 2 cents anyways…
April 30th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Is there a similar tweak to effect this change for all users?
eg [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\...]
April 30th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
I know many have just said it would have been better to put Download Firefox instead. But Firefox visitors actually only surpass IE users by 10% so I thought this would be a nice tip. There are several people discussing about the invalidity of this tip. I’m currently looking into it.
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May 1st, 2007 at 3:09 pm
As posted in my original article, the value ‘3′ will not allow unlimited downloads, but 3 downloads at a time. This is more than 2, but still nicer than say 5 or 500. You can set this value to whatever it is you want, but that’s the MAX downloads available.
So if you’ve already got these two D-Word values and they’re set to 10, then you can do 10 downloads at the same time, although that’s not considered very nice to the site you’re slamming.
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May 3rd, 2007 at 10:55 am
More connections does *NOT* mean better. The more connections you open and the more inefficient as you have to negotiate every connection. In the ideal, lower numbers of connections are more efficient, especially when you use HTTP/1.1 pipelining (which IE’s crummy HTTP/1.1 support cannot work with).
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Pipeline.html
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:56 am
Also, this affects all traffic with a web site, not only “downloads”. Indeed if you download a single file, it will always use 1 connection no matter how many connections you specify (unless you use the RANGE HTTP header).
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May 12th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Thanks man, it worked for me. This is a sick tip! 10/10!
May 15th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
“Of course, you’re really missing out if you’re not surfing with Firefox.
Really though, sometimes I still surf with IE7 becuase I like how the tabs open next to the current one rather than at the very end.”
You might want to check out Tab Mix Plus for Firefox; it gives you this functionality and tons more, like using the scroll wheel to “scroll” through tabs. Trust me, it’s priceless!!!
Check it out:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122
May 15th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
By the way, thanks much for the fix. Honestly, who downloads only 2 things at a time? Haha.
May 16th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Great tip! I’ve been annoyed by this a few times already. Thankfully Vista Wired has saved the day!
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June 5th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Get over the Mozilla thing. It’s not as great as you think.
July 10th, 2007 at 9:26 am
I would really like downloading from six sources at the once’ moment but after reformatting and [replacing; because of interests in weird] multiple harddrives due to the fact that I could not monitor all at once, site advisor became demented. Firefox; I tried but had to replace my primary of three harddrives to regain full control of my monster. Until Vista Utimate comes up with some fix that isn’t corrupted by the Vista compatility to only the Windows {I think paid for cerification} I will be content with only two stinking program downloads at one time; like the reincarnated ROCK; patience sucks. I WANT MORE NOW…………………………..
September 5th, 2007 at 2:58 am
Only one problem with this tip is that it doesn’t work.I have had this setting you have given for months (set at 10)and it does speed up browsing but it still will only Vista download two at a time
October 19th, 2007 at 3:22 am
there’s somthing wrong with my internet explorer. im using firefox but i still need the internet explorer because it is the default program for updating my other programs. how can i fix my ie7? when i try to download ie7 so i could perhaps reinstall it, the website doesn’t allow me to download it because it detected that i already have ie7. how do i solve this problem?
November 30th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Thanks fo tricks i have disable thi protection
December 24th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Please help! I’ve followed your instructions to the letter and I STILL can’t get IE7 to allow more that 2 downloads at a time. Any ideas? This is driving me nuts!
thanks so much
March 29th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Me 2 Bobby. Made the adjustment months ago (per Microsoft’s website) and still have NEVER been able to download more than 2 at a time. BTW, I recently started using firefox and by default, it downloads 8 at a time.. not sure why people above were saying it defaults to 2…
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