[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by BeasTboyz

I pull from my server a few directories back, ../../blah/blah/file.type so I would figure it would be nice and fast and I thought it was before the upgrade.

I don't know what to say. I've just tested our primary server, which we access via ADSL - a 1.6Mb word file came down from LDM at 160 kbytes/sec, which is close to the limit that we can achieve from the ADSL service to which we subscribe. (I have a test script on that server to test theoretical speed of line + server - it reported 126 kbytes/sec, but I imagine that LDM achieved some compression with the word file).

Originally Posted by BeasTboyz

Is it still true that if we link to another domain's files it will pull from their server, through us (thus we're downloading and re-uploading the file)?

That's got to be true unless you set force_download to expose the link so that the user's browser can get straight to the host domain.

Originally Posted by BeasTboyz

Is it your intention to never separate this from the vB attachments area? What if we don't want to allow the attachments in threads of certain files, only in our Links/Downloads manager?

I'll never say never, but I do prefer not to rewrite code that's already written and properly supported by the VB people.

*Edited* - by the way, I think you can disable filetypes in the VB admincp as far as having them as allowed attachments. LDM will still pick them up as acceptable.