Ian Greenway said,
> For example: If I look at a webpage and start to download a file from
> a link, if I move onto another page it would be nicer for the user
> to have the download relegated to the "background" and interactive
> connections like the display of the new page given higher priority of
> download bandwidth.
This isn't possible. When you request a file from a remote server, the
file is sent by the server. Although we talk about downloading from a
remote site, it's more like the remote site is uploading to you. The
data arrives at whatever speed the sending server and intervening
connections can handle, it's not possible to prioritise.
It's a nice idea, and would be very useful, but TCP/IP doesn't work that
way. Each download is broken up into packets, the network is simply
sending you a bunch of packets, it has no idea which ones relate to
which file, they are reassembled after they have reached you.
Neil
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