---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [newbie] Downloader / nt-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 11:29:18 +0100 From: John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NT downloader - 3 CD download later --------------------------------------------- I like the dialogue windows in particular, they give better blow by blow detail of what is actually happening. NT can handle segmented downloads. It took me a while but I found the facility to choose segmented downloads, I rarely do more than 2 segments, but it seems that there is the facility to do more if that is your wish. The one feature about segmenting that I found less appealing was the lack on information about which segment is downloading from which URL sites. There is a dialogue to give some info but it is displayed in url number form , and I don't have a head for remembering long numbers, getright would give you a cryptic little note which includes a note of the localion as well as the actual web address. NT does not appear to be able to split the segmented downloads to more than one website. NT has a facility to create a list of Mirror sites on it's own.This facility appears to use either something called archie.is.co.za ( a real site ? ) or www.filesearch.ru and I used it to go look for these mirror sites for me, it found about 10 , which was not that great , I know for a fact getright would of come up with about 18 or more.Still a very useful feature. It does not seem to make best use of the mirror site list and definately falls behind Getright in that respect. Getright will ping each mirror site form time to time and if it finds a much faster download site it will transfer the download there on the next sensible occassion(it can be adjusted) and NT seems to be mere a list of mirror sites that the user has to fiddle with to make use of . There doesn't seem to be any limit on the number of active downloads. Now that I have a spare partition set aside for the purpose , I found that nt was quite happy to download my files directly to a directory in that spare partition, which is a good thing because if you should get locked out of your OS for whatever reason during a long download then all is not lost and the partially downloaded file will be there to resume upon OS reinstall. One thing I cannot understand is why NT creates hidden files during the download , they all start with a dot and have to be unhidden to find them. Perhaps my NT is not set up right. nt also has the means to schedule your downloads .I don't use this facility much, and I haven't tried if yet , but I should think it works OK. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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