ARRRGH!!!!!! DIE, FILEPLANET! DIIIIIIIEEEE!

The BBQ Pit
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i am in anger at my fortress of geek being violated.

this has no real point, except that i am very mad at file planet, because it keeps closing my download at the 90% mark. this wouldn’t be more than a minor frustration, except for the fact that the file is 100 megs, and that’s 6 hours of downloading on my poor little 56k.

so, without further ado, my anger unleashed:

AAAAAAIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHH!! DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE! YIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYI!!!

<STAB!> <STAB!> <STAB!> <STAB!> <STAB!>

::huff:: ::puff:: ::huff:: ::puff:: ::huff:: ::puff::

ok, i’m better now.
time for attempt 7 on yet another F.P. mirror… lucky number seven…

i will have you back, counterstrike!

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What is this FilePlanet?

[Fortress of Geek. Heh]

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I never use fileplanet. Its way too slow. Though I suppose it doesen’t matter with a 56k modem:)

It might just be easier to get download accelerator so you can restart your download where you left off.

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FilePlanet is a free fileserver run by Gamespy to carry demos and patches et al.

i’m trying to download counterstrike, which involves pretty much dedicating my modem for six hours. a heady and involved process, to say the least (limited SDMB! NOOOOOOO!).

it is free i suppose, but it’s also the only real general duty high capacity game fileserver there is. it’s also held to a higher standard, simply because it’s pretty much the only place to download a game-related file. well, it or one of it’s mirrors/ subservers.

[sub]“fortress of geekitude” would’ve been better…

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hmm? sterra, whazzat? what’s this “download accellerator”? it sounds like a holy artifact of those cursed to use the crap-ass fileplanet with a 56k…

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There are alot of things that let you save your downloads actually. Try http://www.speedbit.com/ Even the personal servers that don’t have a wait time on fileplanet arent better than whatever else you can find to download.

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thank ye kindly, madam. may ye be blessed.

(i’m happy, so i’ve lapsed into Ye Olde English!)

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GetRight (www.getright.com) is one of my routine shordurpersavs. It will generally allow you to re-establish a connection and resume downloading big files from the point where it was lost, rather than starting from scratch–if the server supports it, which most do. I dunno if FilePlanet does these days or not.

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I don’t think fileplanet would, but it doesn’t matter; i got it downloaded last night by leaving my connection open all night. i lucked out… my computer crashed right after it finished downloading. i’m going to set it up now and try it out later.