Downloads do not finish in Safari and Firefox

Hey guys,
new to this forum, so be easy on me...
I just bought a Macboko Unibody a few weeks ago, and for some reason, when I try and download certain files, they don't completely download, however Safari and Firefox believe they're complete (i.e. an incomplete mp3 file will launch in itunes).
Any help on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Jared

JPops10 wrote:
with all due respect, I'm pretty sure I did answer your question.
No, you didn't. To answer my question you'd have to explain how you determined that a downloaded file in fact stopped downloading early as opposed to downloading to completion but becoming corrupted during the download process. I didn't see such an explanation in your posts. I'd argue that if the size of a downloaded file is near the expected value, it's impossible to tell the difference between a corrupt download and an incomplete download. Actually, which of the two cases is true is much less interesting than the fact that the downloaded file isn't usable. But by claiming that "downloads do not finish" you're assuming a cause that may not be true.
Here's an example of the type of thing you may be facing: I've seen a post on this message board by someone who kept trying to download a large Apple software update but the resulting file was unusable due to a checksum error. He was finally able to download the file successfully by removing his router and connecting his computer directly to his broadband modem. Evidently his router introduced enough instability into his download process to cause corruption.
I've downloaded the exact same files (from the same link) from another computer, with complete success.
That only proves that those files can be downloaded given a correctly-functioning data connection.
I've also attempted (as described above) to download some of the files one at a time, and that seems to work properly.
Downloading multiple files at the same time could put extra stress on a marginal connection.

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