I tried IE/FTP and Firefox/FTP and as you say both reported they had
downloaded 530MB but the files were very much smaller.
Used BitTorrent with no Antivirus or S/ware firewall (only the NAT router)
and got a top download rate of 50KB/s.... and a 543MB file.
Used to use Gozilla as download manager... about 4 years ago it was
great...now it just [EMAIL PROTECTED] up the browser.
Our local ISP was raping the dial-up for DNS/DHCP resources and the dial-up
connections couldn't resolve URL's...we couldn't go to their ADSL offering
as we had a different telephone provider and they bundled telephone and
ADSL.
so we bit the bullet and got cable TV/2Mb/s SDSL (the cable was aready run
to the house)... my poor old P1 can only get 97KB/s out of the 2Mbps pipe
(approx 250MB/s should be possible)... but still if the FTP/Torrent site and
intermediates are up to it can get good download speeds...
look forward to cutting the CD and try FGLive.... feedback on Win 32 Me/98SE
platforms iminen.
:-D enet
From: Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sunday 21 May 2006 01:39, dene maxwell wrote:
> consequently downloding a
> 530MB ISO takes a painful 6.5 hours.
You call that painful? FG CVS is over 400MB and I download it on dialup
(and
Linux distros and about 3GB of GIS data per month).
All you need is patience my friend. :)
> When it does complete the download, i
> end up with a file very much smaller than 530MB.
What are you downloading it with?
If you're using a browser then I'm not surprised since they often drop
downloads part of the way and then claim to have finished. IE and FireFox
both do this nasty thing.
Hopefully you're using a download manager. You can grab a windows copy of
wget
and use that or use a nice GUI one like NetAnts.
Paul
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