Doesn't it seem weird that the "GetRight" download manager program, is only 364kb?
http://www.getright.com/get.html
I think I may have clicked the wrong link..
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Doesn't it seem weird that the "GetRight" download manager program, is only 364kb?
http://www.getright.com/get.html
I think I may have clicked the wrong link..
Nevermind. It downloads the rest, inside the download manager... That's clever :)
Lol, it's not unusual ;)
lol, I switched away from dialup about a month ago and I love it:cool: Also in a week my plan is getting changed to be even faster with a lot more bandwidth.
It's strange that you use dialup with bandwidth limits though, every ISP I can think of has no limit for dialup. When I had dialup it has this very annoying feature to auto disconnect me if I idle too long, making it impossible to download large files even if I felt like starting the download and sleeping for half the day:mad:
Oh and if you're using FireFox I remember there being a very good download accelerator but I can't remember the link :(
The download manager I have now has an acceleration patch in it :)
There are "finger" utilities that exist to "prod" the ISP every so often to keep your connection active.Quote:
When I had dialup it has this very annoying feature to auto disconnect me if I idle too long, making it impossible to download large files even if I felt like starting the download and sleeping for half the day
It won't benefit dial-up. Segmented downloading is a means of breaking up a file into parts (segments), and requesting each part from a mirror. The idea is that by spreading the load across multiple servers, especially if those servers are busy, the user can achieve faster download speeds: a heavily taxed server may not be able to upload to the full capacity of a broadband connection. However, dial-up users aren't going to strain servers in the same sense. The overall download speed isn't likely to increase unless the server is running exceptionally poorly.Quote:
Originally Posted by mburt
There is another issue: each new connection will have its own overhead. You don't just recieve 250KB, for example, when downloading a file that's listed as that size. The file is broken up into packets, each of which has extra data attached. Moreover, due to the nature of TCP as a reliable transport protocol, there's extra network traffic as the protocol notifies the sender of errors and acknowledges successful receipt.
Mike
what's the difference between Java platform and Java language? doesnt they refer to the same thing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Twey
"doesn't they"
I think that's grammatically incorrect :)
okies...my mistake :cool:
don't they refer to the same thing?