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Jenni
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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2005 22:14    Post subject: FFS! Five day download
I got Act of war. It took me five days at 20k/sec. Extracted fine apart from rar 5 which I replaced. Mounted it in Daemon tools 3.47. Every file on the disk appears corrupt. Tried ISObuster. Same.

Not happy. I may buy it.
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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2005 22:26    Post subject:
Try getting a par2 set. You might be able to repair without downloading too much.


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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2005 22:49    Post subject:
That was part of the download. Three parts. 2gb, 2gb, 1.1.


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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2005 22:58    Post subject:
bahahahahaha unlucky Razz upgrade ur connection Very Happy


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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2005 22:58    Post subject:
It's nothing special anyway, you're not missing out on much. If thats a consolation.

I've only played about the first 3 missions of the campaign, and tried each side in skirmish. Haven't bothered with it since.

Nice graphics though.


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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2005 23:13    Post subject:
Sad to hear but as AnimalMother said, you aint missing something. If you wan't to play some revolutionary rts wait for AOE3, Empire earth 2 or Black and white 2.

BTW, what about .sfv checking. How did that turn out? And you really need to upgrade your connection. 20k/s is nearly at isdn speeds. Try getting at least 512kbit cable/dsl. 4-10mbit would be more preferrable.
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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2005 23:28    Post subject:
lol. I downloaded act of war off a *removed* which *removed* @ 210kbps. My upload was @ 44kbps since my max is 52.

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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2005 23:32    Post subject:
Mchart - You have been here long enough to know that telling where to download is prohibited. And don't talk about networks etc... Yeah you should know the drill by now.
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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2005 23:36    Post subject:
i know the first *removed* was a torrent but what was the second?Very Happy


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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2005 23:48    Post subject:
Sublime wrote:
i know the first *removed* was a torrent but what was the second?Very Happy



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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 00:24    Post subject:
razor1394 wrote:
Mchart - You have been here long enough to know that telling where to download is prohibited. And don't talk about networks etc... Yeah you should know the drill by now.


Uhh, I gave no links. Whats the big deal? All I said was torrent site (and I didnt even give the name of the network, all I said literally was torrent site), and I would be willing to message PRIVATELY what that site was. So really, what was the big deal with that?
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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 00:52    Post subject:
Uh. I have a 2mb connection. It was the server that was crap.

Gutted I am I wanted to see the live footage more than anything.


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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 01:06    Post subject:
What is your upload bandwidth? Make sure that when using a torrent your upload speed for the torrent is set to only 80% of your max upload bandwidth. You cant blame a crappy server as the problem for a slow torrent. The bandwidth comes from all the other users, not the server which is "tracking" the torrent. You'll usually see crappy speeds if - Your not connectable (fix this by opening and forwarding ports if your have a router/firewall.), your using the "common" torrent ports (fix this by setting a different port range in your client), or your uploading more then 80% of your max upload bandwidth. Or your just not uploading very much and you have a crummy rating.
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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 01:46    Post subject:
why were you downloading from torrents in the first place? Rolling Eyes


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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 01:48    Post subject:
Because they are fast for me and fairly easy to use? Whats your point? If I have to go digging around on IRC and wait in line for a slow DCC, then I'll do that, but If I see a torrent im most definatly using that instead.
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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:07    Post subject:
My upload speed is terrible. Telewest is useless in that respect. 2024/386 is telewests current option.

It means I never get more than 30k/sec from torrent.
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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:13    Post subject:
Is your download decreasing a lot when you upload? When you're using asynchronous systems like cable and dsl that is just part of the tech. You could try netlimiter and limit like 10% of your upload. Your download should be stable then.

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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:18    Post subject:
Well I got the game from IRC not torrent.

Someone told me having lots of resumes can kill it.

Although it extracted fine.


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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:20    Post subject:
Jenni wrote:
Well I got the game from IRC not torrent.

Someone told me having lots of resumes can kill it.

Although it extracted fine.


Yeah, you should do it in one whole download with no resumes to minimise chances of corruption. I know whenever i've used IRC (not very often) that if i've resumed the download a few times the end result has been a corrupted ISO.


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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:22    Post subject:
As long as you resume from the same bot/person you USUALLY end up fine. The one thing I dont get about resume is why it doesnt remember the crc from the file, then check the CRC once you resume. All it does is just check for the same file name, and thats it, which is pretty stupid.
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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:26    Post subject:
yea... and having 30k upload doesn't mean you're limited to 30k download on torrents Rolling Eyes


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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:29    Post subject:
Jenni wrote:
Well I got the game from IRC not torrent.

Someone told me having lots of resumes can kill it.

Although it extracted fine.


if it extracted fine as an .iso file and you still have it you could try mchart's suggestion of using torrent, the corruption handling in torrent clients may enable you to save most of the file all you would need to do is use the resume feature and find a torrent that was made up of the completed .iso file as opposed to the usual .rar then point it to the existing corrupt .iso file with any luck it'll check through that file and redownload only the corrupted segments.

If im making sense it would be worth a try, personally I think the games nothing new but its well done and worth playing Wink

edit......that method would also work for the .rar files that you have as well, any torrent client prompted to resume would check through your existing .rar files and redownload only the corrupted portions of the files.


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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:29    Post subject:
Thats the max I ever get. Not it's the max I'm limited to.
I have no idea why I don't get more.


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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:31    Post subject:
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yea... and having 30k upload doesn't mean you're limited to 30k download on torrents Rolling Eyes


No, your missing the point. If she is uploading *whatever* at her max upload rate and she is on a standard consumer connection like cable or ADSL, then she will be loosing speed on her download. This is because of the gayness of TCP/IP protocols.
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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:31    Post subject:
Jenni wrote:
Thats the max I ever get. Not it's the max I'm limited to.
I have no idea why I don't get more.


Hmm, do you have XP with SP2? The TCP settings in SP2 limits connections to 10. It's known to impact p2p apps like torrent and so.
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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:31    Post subject:
Sp1.


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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:32    Post subject:
razor1394 wrote:
Jenni wrote:
Thats the max I ever get. Not it's the max I'm limited to.
I have no idea why I don't get more.


Hmm, do you have XP with SP2? The TCP settings in SP2 limits connections to 10. It's known to impact p2p apps like torrent and so.


That shouldnt make a difference in this situation. It is most likely that the port she is DCC'ing over is being throttled.
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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 02:52    Post subject:
Could be packet shaped too.
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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 13:02    Post subject:
Jenni wrote:
That was part of the download. Three parts. 2gb, 2gb, 1.1.


I think you misunderstood what a par2 set. It's a few files that allow you to repair a set of files. They're used mostly on newsgroups to repair incomplete files.

http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=6

Also, I'd reccomend not using torrents but that's just my opinion.


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PostPosted: Sat, 26th Mar 2005 16:59    Post subject:
dryan wrote:
Jenni wrote:
That was part of the download. Three parts. 2gb, 2gb, 1.1.


I think you misunderstood what a par2 set. It's a few files that allow you to repair a set of files. They're used mostly on newsgroups to repair incomplete files.

http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=6

Also, I'd reccomend not using torrents but that's just my opinion.


She was using DCC.


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