Digital Art Zone

That’s odd. I can have multiple things downloading at once and it would make no difference other than my download speed being split among multiple items. You don’t by chance have a download manager installed do you?

That is only true if you have a really good, machine and a decent ISP, with good broadband connection and speeds.

I for one would never attempt to download from 2 different sites at the same time. I rarely even download more than one item at a time.  I know the limitations of my machine and my broadband connection.

It’s not a band width issue. On my forays in to the freebies I’ve had 6-8 items downloading from 3 different sites with no issues, it’s only when I am downloading from here I have this issue. When I download from else where I have a download window that keeps me informed, not from here though. When I download from here I don’t get a separate download window I get this weird green bar that keeps passing through my browser icon, but no indication something is downloading, not even a piece file in my download folder.  Like I said things download from here quite bizarrely compared to any other site. It’s like there is some built in download manager from here. It’s getting me quite paranoid. As in nothing I download from anywhere, downloads the way items do from here.

There is a lot I would like to say but certainly can’t be said here. Lets just say if I weren’t familiar with DAZ and hadn’t been doing business here for years, I’d have left on day 1 and not come back. Just too much hinky stuff going on for me to be comfortable with it.

Well OK Stan. colour me puzzled you have managed to find something that no one else has any issue with.  At this point I think I will just give up.

Your better off.

That’s very strange, Stan—I just tested it now to make sure, and files from here download the same way as files from everywhere else using FF—FF asks where I want to save it (because I have it set to always ask), I select the destination, then the Downloads window opens up and shows the count of KB received, then when it’s complete the Downloads window shows it.  It doesn’t get the file size like it did on the old site, so there’s no progress bar, but otherwise it behaves perfectly normally,

Why do I even bother?

Sorry Mike, I seem to consistently have issues no one else does.

Have you ever tried running HiJackThis to see if there’s anything unusual on your system?  Or checked your Hosts file for a redirect?

ETA:  Do you have similar issues using other browsers with DAZ downloads?

I run security scans about once a week,  never find anything. I run firefox for most everything, emaiil is explorer and beta testing ACR was chrome. {ACR was aspiring to be the best racing MMO online, then it was released to open beta with the economy set up, Free to play my lily white…. I quit it, the game has no goals} Playing the L out of LOTRO right now. Not shopping at DAZ so I had a bit of $ to spend on it.

Upgrading firefox fixed the downloads killing other downloads, but the DAZ downloads are still bandwidth greedy. Clicking the daz forum book mark still locks up my browser for the 3-4 seconds it takes to load the forum.