Not able to finish Downloads

[Haavok1]

I have charter cable modem everything has been working well until a few days ago. When I try to download a large file(100 megs or more) my downloading freezes usually at about 80%. I have tried charter tech suppport, no help. Tried downloading same files from various site, and different files also. Same results. Anybody heard or had that problem? Any help would be appreciated.

[zxc47]

you need to give a little more info as to what you have like OS . is how much ram

[Haavok1]

I have Windows XP, 512 Crucial Ram, Athlon 1.7. Also I got a download manager and tied using it, it stalled at about the same place as when using Windows manager, but I paused the download and then hit resume and it did finish the doownload.

[zxc47]

Haavok1:My first guess would be your browers cache is set to low for that big of file.Go to the control panel and open (internet option)under the General tap look at Temporary Internet files. click on the settings button .How many MB do you have set for the browers to use ? You may need to move the slide bar to increase size of cache the browers uses.You may need to Delete the cookies and delete file it may be full. See if that fixes it?

[UnitedWeStand]

Originally posted by Haavok1
I have charter cable modem everything has been working well until a few days ago. When I try to download a large file(100 megs or more) my downloading freezes usually at about 80%. I have tried charter tech suppport, no help. Tried downloading same files from various site, and different files also. Same results. Anybody heard or had that problem? Any help would be appreciated.

I've heard of situations like that as well as had some of my situations like that as described above... You are either using Grokster, Kazaa, WinMX, Imesh, Filetopia, Limewire or a well summed up version of some P2P file share program or you're downloading from a FTP site.. its really not your fault and there is not much you can do about it.. The People that are uploading to you are limiting there upload or dropping there connection altogether. Another thing that might be limiting you to get only 80% of your download may be due to your Drive folder Quota is being met so it won't let you get any further the download and it may even freeze up your computer or give you an error.
My advice to you is optimize your connection ... by getting the Optimizer (http://www.speedguide.net/files/TCPOptimizer.exe)
And setting it to Optimal Settings for your type of internet connection. Save changes and reboot.