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File Download Size Limit?

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NickStiven

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May 2, 2003
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I'm trying to download a very large file over the Net from a site that does not allow me to resume broken downloads. The downloads consistently fail at 9321 KB (using FlashGet).

Is this the result of some obscure Windows 2000 setting on my PC which is limiting incoming download sizes? It's not my firewall or AV program (I tried it with both switched off - gulp!).

Could it be the download site's firewall and proxy settings putting limits on the size of outbound traffic?

Am I just having a bad day ... ?

By the way, my apologies if this is an inappropriate forum for this question - please guide me to a better one, if it exists.
 
Hi,

I've never heard of Windows having a file download size limit, and would be very surprised to discover such a beast. Your file is small in comparison to files I know can be downloaded under W2K (CD images, hundreds of megabytes).

Don't forget that the problem may very well lie "on the other end", i.e., the computer you're downloading from! As an example, I had a similar problem with my mail service, but in the other direction - uploading. Just could not get it to attach a large Zip archive to my message. Took me two frustrating days before I found out they have a 4 MB upload limit... my file was 7 MB...

Good luck!
--Michael
 
Thank you.

I managed to get round the problem eventually by asking the "other end" to divide the file into smaller chunks. They still didn't explain why we had a problem, however, so I expect they had set some sort of limits, as you suspected.
 
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