We’ve completely re-written the download script to improve its performance.  You should no longer have the timeout issues posted about previously, so you can go ahead and download up to 50 photos at a time.  The download should start quicker than previously.

Interestingly, your download will start sooner when downloading the full sized photos than when downloading smaller photos (since they don’t have to be re-sized first) but even with this initial delay, the total download time will usually be faster because of the smaller file size of the re-sized photos.

We will continue to test the new download utility and hopefully be able to raise the 50 photo maximum per download.