Download Problems in Firefox

[Rom Manic]

I'm having a BIG problem with FireFox.

Every time I try to download something, the download speed decreases. Here's an example of what I mean (Not the best example, crappy hosts...)

Anyone know anything? Thanks in advance! :happy:

 

[smcd]

Not necessarily a firefox issue - what type of connection are you using? MSIE does this too, the start of the download it says some silly number then it averages itself out to the "proper" speed.

 

[2fast4u]

i doubt its a firefox issue. if you can reproduce that problem with a different browser its probably rather the server that is the problem here.

 

[Rom Manic]

I wish I could test it out with IE, but...I deleted iexplore.exe Anyway, I'll probably mess around with it, but I'm pretty sure Internet Explorer didn't have this problem.

 

[Doomulation]

Uhhh... what? Won't that cause problems with the system?

 

[ScottJC]

You can only download as fast as the server is sending to you, remember, the internet is nothing more than a collection of computers sending data, so either one of the two possibilitys:

1) Server is slow
2) Routers the data is going through is slow

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

You probably have 56k like I do. I see web browsers do the same thing too.

 

[retroK]

I think I can explain this. FireFox starts downloading even before you select a folder to save the download. So when you select a folder the download has already started for several seconds (depending on how fast you select a folder to download to).
That could be the reason why the download speed seems to be so high at first.

 

[Martin]

I think I can explain this. FireFox starts downloading even before you select a folder to save the download. So when you select a folder the download has already started for several seconds (depending on how fast you select a folder to download to).
That could be the reason why the download speed seems to be so high at first.

Yup, I believe that is correct.