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Limit to number of times you can resume a file download?
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| ali92 |
| Is there a limit where if you keep resumeing a long file download, the final file will be corrupt? I hope not because I been DLíng a 650 MB file for the past week, and I've resumed at least 15 - 20 times so far! I already DL'ed 580 MB of it and I have only 70 MB left! I'm on 33.6K connection so, that'll take me about 7 hours... |
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| KilldaDJ |
| ive resumed a movie [700mb] over 3000 times and so far, ive only got like 40% of it and its fine |
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| ali92 |
| quote: | Originally posted by KilldaDJ
ive resumed a movie [700mb] over 3000 times and so far, ive only got like 40% of it and its fine |
Damn! Was you downloading off multiple sources simultaneously too? That's what I'm doing. What kind of connection do you have, where you would have to resume THAT many times? Or did the user kept coming off and on? |
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| Maaz |
| quote: | Originally posted by ali92
Is there a limit where if you keep resumeing a long file download, the final file will be corrupt? I hope not because I been DLíng a 650 MB file for the past week, and I've resumed at least 15 - 20 times so far! I already DL'ed 580 MB of it and I have only 70 MB left! I'm on 33.6K connection so, that'll take me about 7 hours... |
Nah... resuming is not a real problem. I've got several files resuming a thousand times and nothing happened. Some others came in a while (no need to restart the transfer), but they were corrupted. |
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| KilldaDJ |
| quote: | Originally posted by ali92
Damn! Was you downloading off multiple sources simultaneously too? That's what I'm doing. What kind of connection do you have, where you would have to resume THAT many times? Or did the user kept coming off and on? |
nope, not multiple downloads, the server [HTTP] was just too damn slow and i just left it
and meh stuck with a poxy 56k |
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| trancaholic |
DLing files in multiple parts (either from one source or many) is perfectly ok, except if two distinct files with the same characteristics (name & size) exists. If that is the case, you should get your DL software to do a rollback on each segment so it checks that it comes from the same file as the first parts of the DL.
Unfortunately there's a small probability that two files share the same bitpattern in a specific location, yet are not the same, or that the rollbacked part is corrupted during transfer and incorrectly is regarded as a match, and if either of that two happens you're ed (happened to me a little while ago - 1.5GB down the drain:().
But random noise/signals on the connection can also screw up a DL even if it is from only one source and in one go. Again, the probability is very small, but the larger the file, the higher probability that somewhere in the file something would go wrong.
The universal solution: retry. |
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| Busy Child |
| :wtf: 36k :wtf: |
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| drizzt81 |
| quote: | Originally posted by ali92
Is there a limit where if you keep resumeing a long file download, the final file will be corrupt? I hope not because I been DLíng a 650 MB file for the past week, and I've resumed at least 15 - 20 times so far! I already DL'ed 580 MB of it and I have only 70 MB left! I'm on 33.6K connection so, that'll take me about 7 hours... |
should not be a problem, as long as your software is well written.. crappy software will mess up the first resume :) |
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| DCaff |
| i resume AND change the names sometime( if i have about 30% done and i cant find the exact name, it want resume, so i make sure its the same size and change the name). Iv done this plenty of times and the movie came out fine. |
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| tu_face |
| unless its a different file u try to resume with it should be able to resume an infinite amount of times.. because all the data is in binary code.. so if u have only got 00101110010010101001010 of a file containing 001011100100101010010101001011100100101010010101 then it will just start from the last 0 or 1 :) |
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| Nicke |
| LOL, I remember back in the days when I had ISDN and Napster still was alive, I downloaded a 6 hours set, 325 MB, from different users. When I finally had the whole file, I started to listen to it, and after about 10 minutes it began from the beginning again, and a few minutes later it skipped longer into the mix. So I deleted the f*king file, and started to download it again, and made sure that I always resumed from the same user. Yeah. |
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