2.0 Release 56k Lovin' ?

BreakfastSausages · July 2003

what are the chances the bandwidth challenged among us will be able to download 2.0 as a series of smaller files?

full size downloads always pwn me T_T

Guspaz · July 2003

Just use a download manager like GetRight or Download Accelerator Plus. They'll let you resume your download.

BreakfastSausages · July 2003

that's still only limited help, I use download accelerator plus, and recently I had a download "complete" after only about half of a 200 meg download. Had to throw it away and start over.

MonKeyTurD · July 2003

just download it all at once
i mean whats the chances of it stuffing up : <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'>

Blackout · July 2003

pretty high, considering the amount of time that anything over 20 megs takes, along with network inconsistency and outage...

Yardbomb · July 2003

Well if 2.0 is released on either Fileplanet or Filefront I believe that for some negligible fee ($5 USD?) that they'll send you whatever files you wish burnt onto a cd.

Xodlike · July 2003

my god am i luck sure I DO have 56k but thank god for my friend who is willing to let me bring my computer over and share the good 1.5 mbps broadband...we have agreed to give alot of bandwith to kazaa downloaders....spread 2.0 in any way u can..when i go on kazaa and search ns 2.0 i wanna see a download with 100 users awww man that would be sweeeeet

UKchaos · July 2003

Use 'getright' its never let me down.

Maus · July 2003

I agree - I've never had any problems with GetRight, and I use it pretty often (for every big file I need to download).

killswitch · July 2003

Or just use BitTorrent, as far as I know it resumes downloads and is more reliable than File Planet.

Sirus · July 2003

Or Kazaa

Acrylic · July 2003

I could split up the entire .exe into small parts like 5 or 15 megs each and host them for you, you download all the parts and put them together

Corrado · July 2003

People saying "Use Kazaa" are not too intelligent..

Do you have any idea how easy it would be for someone to put a trojan into the exec file and then you eejits dload it and it messes your comp up. Just download it from the mirrors...there will be more than enough.

ArsoN · July 2003

GetRight hasn't failed me yet, i remember downloading a large file once (about 300Mb), over the span of 2 months, and 2 different OS installs, resumed over 70 times, and it still worked. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Beast · July 2003

I have adsl, but I still suffer from the disconnection problem (every 99 mins) unless bandwidth is maxed. So I have to find the fastest server possible to download it off, or I may have problems >_<

disq · July 2003

FlashGet and Reget are the best two download accelerators I've ever seen.
get <a href='http://www.amazesoft.com' target='_blank'>flashget</a> or <a href='http://www.reget.com' target='_blank'>reget</a>

Haze · July 2003

Whats get right and that other thing for downloading do? My cable feels like 56k many times more over (I sometimes am over at my grand parents house checkin things out on internet). Just imagine haveing Road Runner, and not being able to downlod 1.98MB over the corse of half an hour!!

Forlorn · July 2003

<a href='http://www.netants.com' target='_blank'>www.netants.com</a>

Is pretty damn useful. It uses an algorithm to speed up your Download by small bits, it helps a lot on a 56K.

You can also set how much of your bandwidth you want it to use, so it's still possible to DL on a 56K and broswe the forums or whatever.

I set it to DL at 1 Kps while I browse.

Misfire · July 2003

u can use hj split and split the file and then use the program to join the pieces together. <a href='http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/' target='_blank'>http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/</a>

taboofires · July 2003

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (#Ha.Ze- @ Jul 26 2003, 08:29 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Whats get right and that other thing for downloading do? My cable feels like 56k many times more over (I sometimes am over at my grand parents house checkin things out on internet). Just imagine haveing Road Runner, and not being able to downlod 1.98MB over the corse of half an hour!!  </td></tr></table> 
A good one will let you download slightly faster by using segmented downloading, but most importantly it will allow you to pause and resume a download at a later time.

Roadrunner is only nice when it's running, btw. "Always on" is a joke (at least in my area, NC). On bad days, I could still get more downloaded over the course of a day with a reliable 56k. That's sad.

Mythr1l · July 2003

Getright - i used for 2 years on 56k, no problems at all, ISDN for a year no problems, then i DSL came to my area and i got that, now i use windows download <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Crashuk · July 2003

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (BreakfastSausages @ Jul 25 2003, 09:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> what are the chances the bandwidth challenged among us will be able to download 2.0 as a series of smaller files?

full size downloads always pwn me T_T  </td></tr></table> 
PC mags will have the mod on they cover disc

SinSpawn · July 2003

Flashget hasn't failed me yet...

criogenics · July 2003

BitTorrent. Nuff said. I'll be hosting the tracker and seeding and I'll post the info when the time comes.

<a href='http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html' target='_blank'>Get BitTorrent HERE</a>

BitTorrent downloads are resumable and bandwidth friendly.

Acrylic · July 2003

i already mentioned i could split and host the files

Johnny_Blaque · July 2003

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (taboofires @ Jul 26 2003, 05:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (#Ha.Ze- @ Jul 26 2003, 08:29 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Whats get right and that other thing for downloading do? My cable feels like 56k many times more over (I sometimes am over at my grand parents house checkin things out on internet). Just imagine haveing Road Runner, and not being able to downlod 1.98MB over the corse of half an hour!! </td></tr></table>
A good one will let you download slightly faster by using segmented downloading, but most importantly it will allow you to pause and resume a download at a later time.

Roadrunner is only nice when it's running, btw. "Always on" is a joke (at least in my area, NC). On bad days, I could still get more downloaded over the course of a day with a reliable 56k. That's sad.  </td></tr></table> 
Roadrunner IS always on around here in NC. Working full speed infact. I beleve it took me about 10 minutes to dl NS when it first came out(I used Fileplanet). <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Foggy · July 2003

Best solution: get a friend to burn it for you. That's what a couple of my friends do. Cheap 'n' easy unless your friends don't have broadband (or if you don't have any friends).

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