Microsoft's Internet Explorer typically limits you to download between 2 and 4 files simultaneously, not any more. This can be quite annoying.

As an alternative, you can use Netscape's Communicator which lets you download as many as you would like.

Also, using the file presented here, you can remove this annoying limit in Internet Explorer.

Download Here:

IE Download limit.reg (1 kB)

The executable file has a .reg extension, and modifies your system registry. You can open the file with notepad and look over the code to find out what changes are being done. You must restart your machine after running the file.

Contents of the file:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:00000010
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:00000008