2.0 Release 56k Lovin' ?

BreakfastSausagesBreakfastSausages Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11148Members
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

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  • GuspazGuspaz Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2862Members, Constellation
    Just use a download manager like GetRight or Download Accelerator Plus. They'll let you resume your download.
  • BreakfastSausagesBreakfastSausages Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11148Members
    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.
  • MonKeyTurDMonKeyTurD Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12129Members
    just download it all at once
    i mean whats the chances of it stuffing up : <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • BlackoutBlackout Join Date: 2002-11-17 Member: 9004Members
    pretty high, considering the amount of time that anything over 20 megs takes, along with network inconsistency and outage...
  • YardbombYardbomb Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9791Members
    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.
  • XodlikeXodlike Join Date: 2003-06-03 Member: 16985Members
    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
  • UKchaosUKchaos Join Date: 2002-08-10 Member: 1132Members
    Use 'getright' its never let me down.
  • MausMaus Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5599Members
    edited 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).
  • killswitchkillswitch Join Date: 2003-02-05 Member: 13141Members, Constellation
    Or just use BitTorrent, as far as I know it resumes downloads and is more reliable than File Planet.
  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
  • AcrylicAcrylic Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6400Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Shadow
    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
  • CorradoCorrado Join Date: 2002-12-23 Member: 11423Members
    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.
  • ArsoNArsoN Join Date: 2003-06-10 Member: 17177Members
    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. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • BeastBeast Armonkyi Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15731Members, Constellation
    edited 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 >_<
  • disqdisq Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10312Members, NS1 Playtester
    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>
  • HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
    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 <i><u><b><span style='color:red'>half an hour!!</span></b></u></i>
  • ForlornForlorn Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2634Banned
    edited 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.
  • MisfireMisfire Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5764Members
    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>
  • taboofirestaboofires Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9853Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--#Ha.Ze-+Jul 26 2003, 08:29 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (#Ha.Ze- @ Jul 26 2003, 08:29 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 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 <i><u><b><span style='color:red'>half an hour!!</span></b></u></i> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    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.
  • Mythr1lMythr1l Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12772Members
    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 <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • CrashukCrashuk Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17908Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--BreakfastSausages+Jul 25 2003, 09:06 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BreakfastSausages @ Jul 25 2003, 09:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 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 <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    PC mags will have the mod on they cover disc
  • SinSpawnSinSpawn Harbinger of Suffering Join Date: 2002-11-12 Member: 8359Members
    Flashget hasn't failed me yet...
  • criogenicscriogenics Join Date: 2003-01-13 Member: 12248Members, Constellation
    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.
  • AcrylicAcrylic Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6400Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Shadow
    i already mentioned i could split and host the files
  • Johnny_BlaqueJohnny_Blaque Join Date: 2002-09-26 Member: 1339Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--taboofires+Jul 26 2003, 05:58 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (taboofires @ Jul 26 2003, 05:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--#Ha.Ze-+Jul 26 2003, 08:29 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (#Ha.Ze- @ Jul 26 2003, 08:29 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 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 <i><u><b><span style='color:red'>half an hour!!</span></b></u></i> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    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. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    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). <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • FoggyFoggy Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9620Members
    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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