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| Thread ID: 52492 | 2004-12-20 18:55:00 | Large downloads via dial-up | allblack (6574) | Press F1 |
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| 306007 | 2004-12-20 20:55:00 | I also use GetRight - recommend it, untill the trial runs out :s | Growly (6) | ||
| 306008 | 2004-12-20 21:29:00 | If this required an application, although Im not a windows user, I would also back Getright... because the way it saves the files is very good! Why not just leave it going overnight, save yourself an annoyed Mrs over Christmas ;-) Start the download then calculate how long its going to go for. If you really wanted, from there you could use: Autodown (www.idg.net.nz) Just leave yourself a bit ofa 'cushion' time-wise in case it slows Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 306009 | 2004-12-21 01:21:00 | Iv'e used Flashget and have had no probs downloading large files, or are FG and Getright the same product? Anyway, for large files, I used to let'm rip during the day when I went to work/school. Had a quick check during the lunch period if it was going. It's a real pain in the butt when haven downloaded for 8 hours or so only to find out the file is corrupt, wrong game/software etc, or it the connection breaks just before it's finished, and what have you. Sure u experience those frustration with broadband too, it just happesn quicker. On the other hand, with dial-up, it usually doesn't mean a waste of bandwith of your capped rate, if your file indeed doesn't seem to work. |
Bazman (6587) | ||
| 306010 | 2004-12-21 01:21:00 | fresh download is great, and its free and theres no spyware. im on dial up aswell and the biggest file ive downloaded is about 300mb took awhile, but just leave it on all night. | Prescott (11) | ||
| 306011 | 2004-12-21 01:42:00 | If I ever want to download a big file, what I do is find a New Zealand mirror on my dial-up connection, then jump down to I-Play (a cyber caff in Wellington) and download it there at 1/2 mb a second!!!! Its true. I downloaded a 400 mb file in under 20 minutes. Also their computers have cd-burners so you can burn the files you downloaded there. It costs 3 or 4 dollars an hour. | eat soap (124) | ||
| 306012 | 2004-12-21 01:48:00 | Don't know bout I-Play, where bouts in town is it? | Bazman (6587) | ||
| 306013 | 2004-12-21 02:12:00 | Im on dialup 2 and I use Fresh Download its small, free, easy to use and works good also contains NO spyware ! | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 306014 | 2004-12-21 04:37:00 | Im on dialup 2 and I use Fresh Download its small, free, easy to use and works good also contains NO spyware ! i used freedownload, but didn't like it very much. it would seemingly cap at 2KB/s, averaging 0.87KB/s, when it didn't time out @_@ |
Edward (31) | ||
| 306015 | 2004-12-24 10:14:00 | i use flashget as well and find it brillant for downloading files ,supports resumes and seems a lot faster | snapper (699) | ||
| 306016 | 2004-12-24 12:49:00 | I would look at FlashGet,found very good,then run adaware afterwards. Leachget is a far better program and there is no need to run Spybot after it's installation. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
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