Downloading Vista Beta 2
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How about using a download manager which is able to resume when the connection is cut?
Robert Rohde wrote:
How about using a download manager which is able to resume when the connection is cut?
I've tried a couple of them, but they somehow broken Explorer (it couldn't open any website) until I uninstalled them. _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
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I'm trying to download Vista Beta 2 without success since monday. Why?, you may ask. Because my fucking router (ZyXEL Prestige 660HW[^]) resets when it's over-heated, and with the high temperatures of these days it happens almost hourly, when I download big files (say Vista x86-64, more than 4 GB). I'm sick of this. Today I'll try to move the router in a cooler place, and if this won't solve the problem I'll move it directly into a trash bin. _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
I've got a HD in a USB case, and the case's fan doesn't work - so when I use it I have a high-velocity 8" fan blowing across it - and that keeps it cooler than it would be if the [case] fan worked. You might want to try a fan as a temporary fix, until you can get a new one.
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Robert Rohde wrote:
How about using a download manager which is able to resume when the connection is cut?
I've tried a couple of them, but they somehow broken Explorer (it couldn't open any website) until I uninstalled them. _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
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Firefox's download manager supports suspend/resume of downloads, and I've been using it for maybe 2 years without any problems. :-)
It doesn't seem to work in my case: when the TCP connection fails, Firefox simply stops downloading. If I hit 'Retry', it restarts from scratch. _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
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It doesn't seem to work in my case: when the TCP connection fails, Firefox simply stops downloading. If I hit 'Retry', it restarts from scratch. _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
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Well I've never had the connection fail that I remember, but I was thinking you could download in small increments, you could at least manually pause and resume, to give your router a chance to cool down.
J. Dunlap wrote:
you could at least manually pause and resume, to give your router a chance to cool down.
That's a good idea. Now I try. _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
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I'm trying to download Vista Beta 2 without success since monday. Why?, you may ask. Because my fucking router (ZyXEL Prestige 660HW[^]) resets when it's over-heated, and with the high temperatures of these days it happens almost hourly, when I download big files (say Vista x86-64, more than 4 GB). I'm sick of this. Today I'll try to move the router in a cooler place, and if this won't solve the problem I'll move it directly into a trash bin. _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
Take the case off the router and set a 20" room fan blowing directly on it. This will give you serious airflow. Ten years ago I cooked a HDD in a server due to too many drives and not enough airflow, and this solution dropped the temperature from literally blistering to merely bloodwarm.
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Take the case off the router and set a 20" room fan blowing directly on it. This will give you serious airflow. Ten years ago I cooked a HDD in a server due to too many drives and not enough airflow, and this solution dropped the temperature from literally blistering to merely bloodwarm.
:-D I'll try... I even have the room fan! _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
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Take the case off the router and set a 20" room fan blowing directly on it. This will give you serious airflow. Ten years ago I cooked a HDD in a server due to too many drives and not enough airflow, and this solution dropped the temperature from literally blistering to merely bloodwarm.
:cool: I placed the room fan flowing directly towards the router, at a distance of 2 meters, without taking the case off. Well, the temperature is dropped, really. At least for what I can feel with my bare touch. It seems stable, anyway. _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
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Robert Rohde wrote:
How about using a download manager which is able to resume when the connection is cut?
I've tried a couple of them, but they somehow broken Explorer (it couldn't open any website) until I uninstalled them. _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
FreeDownloadManager[^] - never had a problem with it at all, can integrate into FF and IE but perhaps the best is not to do either, if you copy an address and "Start a Download" it automatically fills in the download from field for you from the clipboard. You can also control the rates at which it downloads, whether it should slow down at certain times (e.g. when other people come online most often) and so on. For anything above 100MB I use it, partially because I can then stop it (or slow it down) quite happily if I need a quicker response for something.
The Welsh will always support two teams: The Welsh, and anyone playing England :)
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FreeDownloadManager[^] - never had a problem with it at all, can integrate into FF and IE but perhaps the best is not to do either, if you copy an address and "Start a Download" it automatically fills in the download from field for you from the clipboard. You can also control the rates at which it downloads, whether it should slow down at certain times (e.g. when other people come online most often) and so on. For anything above 100MB I use it, partially because I can then stop it (or slow it down) quite happily if I need a quicker response for something.
The Welsh will always support two teams: The Welsh, and anyone playing England :)
Ed.Poore wrote:
FreeDownloadManager[^]
Well, I'm already installing it. Thanks for the link! _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
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Ed.Poore wrote:
FreeDownloadManager[^]
Well, I'm already installing it. Thanks for the link! _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
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I'm trying to download Vista Beta 2 without success since monday. Why?, you may ask. Because my fucking router (ZyXEL Prestige 660HW[^]) resets when it's over-heated, and with the high temperatures of these days it happens almost hourly, when I download big files (say Vista x86-64, more than 4 GB). I'm sick of this. Today I'll try to move the router in a cooler place, and if this won't solve the problem I'll move it directly into a trash bin. _____________________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - Developing ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0b...
Vista crashes routers too? No wonder they're late delivering it.
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