Downloading problem

[Zim]

Hello, I hope I put this in the right place. I've never had had any questions like this before, at least since I started playing TW games a few years back.

I've been hoping to try the Broken Crescent mod for MTW2. I only have access to dialup on my gaming computer, so normally I download mods on my wife's laptop using her wireless connection (still rather slowly) then put them on a thumb drive and put them on my computer. This mod is too big to do so, however.

I'm housesitting for someone else with wireless, but with their own router (and much faster). I plugged my computer into the router and took a shot at downloading the mods. However, everytime I try, it just stops downloading after a while. The downloading animation is still working, but numbers (transfer rate, time to download, etc.) do not change. No error message or anything.

I can't figure out what is happening. My wife's wireless is much, much slower, but it never does this.

Luckily I found they have the mod on file share in some 10 parts, each individually small enough to put on my thumb drive. Worst comes to worst, I can download them seperately at home (probably looking at 5 hours each) and transfer them one by one on the thumbdrive over the course of a week or so. Still, if possible I'd rather do it here at 200+ KB per second, than back home at 3-4.

Any thoughts on what the prblem could be?

[Caius]

Why don't you use a download manager?

[Zim]

Do you know where I could get one?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Opera and Firefox, to name two.

[Zim]

Aren't those browsers?

I did a bit of searching, and found one. I guess it's just a matter of getting the downloader manage downloaded now.

[LeftEyeNine]

Internet Download Manager - the way to salvation.

[Zim]

Thanks, I think that's the one I ended up downloading.

I believe I figured it out, thought. The download manager showed me why the download stopped. It said "access denied. Invalid User Name or Password". I get access to the wireless router just by plugging my computer into the router (it isn't equipped to use wireless), without putting in any kind of password. I can get it easily enough, but suddenly I'm faced with the question of where do I enter it? It's not like I'm prompted for one. When I plug the router in, my computer is just automatically online.

I'm afraid I still have a lot to learn about these things.

[Zim]

I suppose my revised question is, where the heck do I enter the password if I'm not prompted for one?

[sapi]

Internet Download Manager - the way to salvation.

wget > *, you don't need a gui!

No, seriously, I actually use wget. It's fantastic

[Zim]

Someone suggested I try Torrent and it seems to be working. It was painfully slow at first (sometimes .1 K/S ) but suddenly it's doing ok, although still slower than downloading normally would be on this connection.

With any luck I'll have it in three more hours (having already spent around 3 hours downloading).

Hopefully the patch for it isn't too big...

[LeftEyeNine]

It seems to me that your download problem is not a client-side (your end, that is) problem, but a server-side one. Probably the server asks for a FTP login procedure at certain intervals, based on the size you downloaded or the time elapsed after you've built the transfer connection.

And the torrent's success strengthens the possibility of this assumption even more. Glad you've made it through after all.

No need to throw away Internet Download Manager though. Believe me, there is NO better when it comes to leeching files.

[Ramses II CP]

I would definitely recommend Firefox or Opera, if nothing else they have a small footprint and are easily installed so you have the option when you need it. Troubleshooting a wireless router when you're away from home is probably more work than just downloading the file at home. That access denied message is curious, but a download that just peters out probably isn't related.

Generally step one for me would be to test your ability to download a file from a source of known quality, to prove it's not a problem on the other end (And for a new/popular file that's entirely possible). Step two is cycle the power on your router and reboot your PC. Step three try a different port on the router, though that's a long shot it's also easy to do.

And, since you're not at your own home, step four is find a different connection somewhere else. Everybody knows somebody who pays for (Or puts it on their company's dime) the best local connection available.

Good luck!

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Opera and Firefox are both browsers with included download managers that work very well.

[Caius]

I personally use DAP, Download Acellerator Plus.

[Zim]

I'll definately be keeping the download manager.

I downloaded the mod successfully (and finally the patch) but now I get a fatal error when I try to play. I guess I'll just stick to vanilla for now, until I have better internet access and can afford trying repeatedly to download BC.