got a link from someone before a freeware prog that allows downloading of streams
instead of all the waiting can anyone help

take it you mean ms media files

yeah things from here

http://www.populustv.com

http://www.populustv.com/tvfiles/isf.asp

don't worry found it, fittingly its called free download manager! got it of zdnet

[Edited on 15/10/04 by macspeedy]