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Connection Difficulties
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Hiya, I'm in the Navy, and with our ship at sea our internet connection is shabby to the point of where we loose net connectivity every minute or so. (So when downloading at an average of 2k I might get 300k of a file before it disconnects briefly, but long enough to disconnect a download when using Firefox/IE/Netscape.) To make downloading -anything- possible I use a small (325kb) applet called Wget (gnu.org/software/wget/)... it's not a download accelerator, it uses one connection and when it detects a disconnection it attempts to resume the file from where it left off. Otherwise it's essentially impossible for me to download files of any size. I guess it's a manager(if you could even call it that,) but the Rules said just use caution. Is there any way to get this whitelisted or something? If I'm lucky I'll manage to pull in a complete song before having to wait till the next day. ^^ Thanks, Q. |
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Re: Connection Difficulties
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on 2007-07-20 15:22:15 |
Well, if it's really just a download manager and not a download accelerator, then it should be allowed. I also remember Gendou recommending using a download manager (not accelerator) if you have a "troublesome" connection...   |
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Re: Connection Difficulties
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As far as I know it should be good to go. Partial files are comprised of contiguous bits, i.e. a partial wmv or flash vid plays from start till where the download stopped, meaning it doesn't make multiple connections and get different parts at the same time like an accelerator. I'm poking through the forum search results again, didn't find anything under keywords like "Download Manager" or "accepted" "acceptable" "manager" etc. "Download" (400+ results) didn't seem to have anything pertinent either. I did find the thread that says that wget is not supported, doesn't exactly say why but probably due to how it's possible to spam retry attempts. Anyway... any keyword suggestions for this alternate manager? |
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Re: Connection Difficulties
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on 2007-07-20 22:03:43 (edited 2007-07-20 22:05:03)
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I have had some trouble with wget in the past; people crawling the site and other impolite activity. You can use the the -U argument to specify (and thereby conceal) the user agent, preferably your username. That way the server will not deny you access. 
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