Solution to slow DL speeds for Deng/similar vids

[Mark W]

Right, now that there seems to be 2.5 million companies starting up in China (e.g. ZhiBikes, Benc, etc.), and they're releasing videos all the time - not to mention the ones that come from Deng-sponsored riders most of the time - people are complaining about slow DL speeds.

To make them download faster, all you've got to do is head to Download.com and get a download resumer. The one I use is DLExpert. It's probably not great, but it's pretty easy to use and alter settings and so on, so it's more than enough for the occassional video. But yeah, the main purpose of this was just to highlight to people that you can get the vids way faster using a DL resumer. That Benc vid was dling at 222bytes per/sec for me last night, so I used DLExpert and instead of taking 5 1/2 hrs, it took 10 mins. Think the max speed it got was just under 100kb/sec, on a 2.2mbps BB connection. I know that's not great in comparison to other sites, but it's still a load better than as standard.

So yeah, DL resumers for the win and all that.

[ben_travis]

Mark, your topic title isnt very descriptive.

more appropriate would be

"slow download speeds from deng/similar vids?, then look inside here please....."

sorry to be a dick, but the mods make sure we all do it, so you should as well

love you

[Mark W]

Most people still don't so I end up editing loads of topic titles, but meh, I see your point

Title edited

[JT!]

How would a download resumer speed up downloads?

[Joe_Elding]

Does it work for dial-up?

[Ben Geary]

I've downloaded it, but now how this it work

[Mark W]

How would a download resumer speed up downloads?

Ones like DLExpert download it in bits. For example, I have it set to 30 threads. That means that it'll download more of the it, yeah? If you imagine it was 25 threads, each would DL 4% of it. Therefore, you're downloading more at once, hence faster speeds. Geddit?

[JT!]

Geddit?

Hell no!

But if it speeds it up i'll be happy.

[Mark W]

*sigh*

Right.

You download it without, say, DLExpert. You start off at 0%, and work your way up to 100%, at 25kb/sec.

You download it with DLExpert, using 4 threads. Thread 1 starts at 0%. Thread 2 at 25%. Thread 3 at 50%. Thread 4 at 75%. As you're going, you're basically working up from each of those. Therefore, it'd have 4 DLs going at 25kb/sec, yeah? So theoretically, it'd take 1/4 of the time. This isn't how it works, but hopefully you'll get it now

[tomturd]

[attachmentid=2689]

Ta da.

Reccomend you use a download accelerator with tupload.net

[Alex.loves.boys]

righty

i downloaded it last night.

i use firefox myself and cant get it to work in firefox

in internet explorer you right click on the link and then go to download with DAP..

BUT with firefox there is no such option ..

can anyone help me out?

[munkee]

righty

i downloaded it last night.

i use firefox myself and cant get it to work in firefox

in internet explorer you right click on the link and then go to download with DAP..

BUT with firefox there is no such option ..

can anyone help me out?

Yea.. hightlight the link and press copy.. then open up DAP and it will ask if you want to download from that address ( if i remember correctly) or click on add new address and stick that in

[Jonny Jones]

Sorry to be annoying.. anything similar available for Macs?

J.

[Ash-Kennard]

ok, i installed the DLExpert then this came up. shall i delete it or does this mean nothing? i read it all and thought wtf i dont understand any of this. so please help

"Some parts of this file is Chinese GB code.

0.99 (2001.12.20)

1. Fix Bug: some zip or exe files are corrupted.

2. Fix bug: change lauguage without restarting.

3. Delete unfinished files when delete jobs.

4. Optional confirmation when URL is redirected.

0.98 (2001.4.24)

1. Drag-n-drop to arrange job rows.

2. Run the file from DLExpert.

3. Tip for drag-n-drop window.

4. Download the page even if the file size is unknown.

5. Change language without restarting.

6. Fix bug: Froze when cancel dial-up operation.

0.975 (2001.2.16)

1. Fix Bug: Crash IE sometimes.

2. Fix Bug: Error when auto rename a batch of URLs.

0.97 (2001.2.8)

1. Written with VC++6.0, needs comctrl32.dll 4.70

2. Intergated with IE.

3. Automatically rename if the file exists.

4. Fix bug: Always says there are a job with the same name.

5. Fix bug: Some files can't resume.

0.96 (2000.12.12)

1. Support multi-language

2. Catch URL from cipboard.

3. Create a directory in "select directory" dialog

4. Fix bug: The droping window disappears.

5. Fix bug: The job list displays nothing.

6. Fix bug: No tips in toolbar.

0.95 (2000.9.14)

1. Support username and password with URL

2. Add "Startall" and "Stopall"

3. Fix a bug about memory error

4. Improve supporting URL moving

0.94 (2000.7.11)

1. Local Http files use the original time.

2.Improve supporting for zip file.

3. Display file folders in job lists.

3. Display tips for job lists.

0.93 (2000.4.20)

1.Support ASP,Perl,Php3 and other CGI URL.

2.Support all kind of CGI redirection URLs.

0.92(2000.3.28)

1. Improve cooperation between threads,make the rate quicker.

2. Users may set HTTP agent name.

3. Change lanague verson form toolbar.

4. Display time for downloading.

5. A wizard for adding a new job.

0.91(1999.12.18)

1.Fix bug. Can't find dial network on NT.

2.Fix bug. Can't give URL when URL has moved.

3.Add tips about adding URLs from a file.

4.Add a batch of jobs.

5.Finish English manual."

Edited February 14, 2006 by ash-kennard

[Deonn h]

I just downloaded it but it dosent work .It`s also in a different language.

[Jaffacakes]

Haha awesome, half of the coding is in chinese. I better go and test it out

[tomturd]

ok, i installed the DLExpert then this came up. shall i delete it or does this mean nothing? i read it all and thought wtf i dont understand any of this. so please help

"Some parts of this file is Chinese GB code.

0.99 (2001.12.20)

1. Fix Bug: some zip or exe files are corrupted.

2. Fix bug: change lauguage without restarting.

3. Delete unfinished files when delete jobs.

4. Optional confirmation when URL is redirected.

0.98 (2001.4.24)

1. Drag-n-drop to arrange job rows.

2. Run the file from DLExpert.

3. Tip for drag-n-drop window.

4. Download the page even if the file size is unknown.

5. Change language without restarting.

6. Fix bug: Froze when cancel dial-up operation.

0.975 (2001.2.16)

1. Fix Bug: Crash IE sometimes.

2. Fix Bug: Error when auto rename a batch of URLs.

0.97 (2001.2.8)

1. Written with VC++6.0, needs comctrl32.dll 4.70

2. Intergated with IE.

3. Automatically rename if the file exists.

4. Fix bug: Always says there are a job with the same name.

5. Fix bug: Some files can't resume.

0.96 (2000.12.12)

1. Support multi-language

2. Catch URL from cipboard.

3. Create a directory in "select directory" dialog

4. Fix bug: The droping window disappears.

5. Fix bug: The job list displays nothing.

6. Fix bug: No tips in toolbar.

0.95 (2000.9.14)

1. Support username and password with URL

2. Add "Startall" and "Stopall"

3. Fix a bug about memory error

4. Improve supporting URL moving

0.94 (2000.7.11)

1. Local Http files use the original time.

2.Improve supporting for zip file.

3. Display file folders in job lists.

3. Display tips for job lists.

0.93 (2000.4.20)

1.Support ASP,Perl,Php3 and other CGI URL.

2.Support all kind of CGI redirection URLs.

0.92(2000.3.28)

1. Improve cooperation between threads,make the rate quicker.

2. Users may set HTTP agent name.

3. Change lanague verson form toolbar.

4. Display time for downloading.

5. A wizard for adding a new job.

0.91(1999.12.18)

1.Fix bug. Can't find dial network on NT.

2.Fix bug. Can't give URL when URL has moved.

3.Add tips about adding URLs from a file.

4.Add a batch of jobs.

5.Finish English manual."

Thats all rubbish - ignore it.

For those having problems, I use this - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org - free, no adverts and good.

[Bionic Balls]

hello chaps..

anyone using firefox..i'd reccommend the extension called "flashgot"...

if you've got an accelerator (i've got GetRight), just right click the link, flashgot link, and it'll download it using your accelerator for you..very simple.

you can even download all of the links on a page at once if you really want to.

adam

[F-Stop Junkie]

Sorry for this, but...

[pedant]You can not over utilise a link. If you're getting max download speeds, then you can not accelerate it in anyway. For vids that come down at 4K/sec, this may well work, but not all FTP servers have download resume turned on, so this may not work, and may interfere with other legite downloads too.[/pedant]