# ARRRGH!!!!!! DIE, FILEPLANET! DIIIIIIIEEEE! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 3, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrgh-die-fileplanet-diiiiiiieeee/85091 "2001-10-03T01:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrgh-die-fileplanet-diiiiiiieeee/85091/1 "2001-10-03T01:23:05Z")
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!!!** _ \ \ \ \ \ ::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! ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrgh-die-fileplanet-diiiiiiieeee/85091/2 "2001-10-03T01:27:56Z")
What is this FilePlanet? [Fortress of Geek. Heh] ---
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrgh-die-fileplanet-diiiiiiieeee/85091/3 "2001-10-03T01:43:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrgh-die-fileplanet-diiiiiiieeee/85091/4 "2001-10-03T01:46:22Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrgh-die-fileplanet-diiiiiiieeee/85091/5 "2001-10-03T01:48:31Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrgh-die-fileplanet-diiiiiiieeee/85091/6 "2001-10-03T01:58:56Z")
There are alot of things that let you save your downloads actually. Try [http://www.speedbit.com/](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. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrgh-die-fileplanet-diiiiiiieeee/85091/7 "2001-10-03T02:11:05Z")
thank ye kindly, madam. may ye be blessed. (i’m happy, so i’ve lapsed into Ye Olde English!) ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrgh-die-fileplanet-diiiiiiieeee/85091/8 "2001-10-03T08:09:16Z")
GetRight ([www.getright.com](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrgh-die-fileplanet-diiiiiiieeee/85091/9 "2001-10-03T11:31:09Z")
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.