Parallel Downloads

[topbanana]

At the moment, if you select multiple apps to install, or have multiple that require updates, they are dealt with one by one.  And in 2 steps... download, then install... Download the next, then install, etc...
The installation step probably should be done sequentially, but downloading absolutely can be done in parallel, and installing should be allowed when downloading another installer.

As we're now getting faster and faster connections to the internet, we're often seeing the speed of the server being the bottle neck, congestion on parts of the internet, or, like mine, living on the other side of the planet to most of the servers, so many hops and huge ping times...  Or maybe one publisher's website is just slammed with too many of us grabbing the new version, or it's having a bad day...
These limitations are mostly solved by downloading multiple files (or parts) in parallel, that often allows you to get back to maxing out your own internet connection.
This is obviously standard practice for many apps that download stuff... FileZilla can do up to 10, JDownloader as many as you want to try, and even Chrome/et al. make 6 connections to load web pages faster!

Could PMPC-HU get an option to configure how many parallel downloads it can do? (i.e. 1 to any number...)
So setting it to 4 would download 4 different installers at a time, and start installing the first one to finish downloading, then the 2nd, etc...

This would allow the whole job of installing/updating multiple apps faster than it currently is, and much faster for those users that see 'slow' downloads from some publishers, or just have massive fat pipes of internet connected to their home.
This will also greatly speed up the provisioning job when we set it to 'Download Only' (soon™?)... Allowing us to quickly have a complete and updated selection of app installers on our network share/usb stick, whatever, before we later go to update our PCs.

This would make PMPC-HU faster/better.