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Posted March 27, 2009
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michaelleung: I get irregular speeds, but that's mostly because I'm on a wireless connection here. I use an 8M connection (which is damned cheap), what ISP are you, just out of curiousity?

Singnet, a local ISP. My speeds are usually good, so the downloads seldom take more than 30 mins
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Aezra: Cheers for the reply.
The downloader, when it decides to work, downloads at under 100kbps. Getright downloads at nearly 1k, hence the 'rediculously slow' comparison. If the server has been undergoing problems every time I've tried to download with getright/flashget I'd be a pretty unlucky guy.
Re the jerk bit, I'm normally pretty decent on forums, in particular when people are providing services for free. I understand that problems occur with servers etc, but when i happens time and time again...

Understood. These things happen. Sucks even more that your bandwidth is limited. So this happens on the normal Firefox downloader too huh...hmmm you could try what michaelleung suggested and use something else like Flashget. Or try using IE. Sometimes what doesn't work in Firefox works in IE, see if that works for you
And if all else fails, you just have to wait for a reply from GOG
Posted March 27, 2009
i didnt encouner any problems with gog downloader, but quite long time ago had similar problem with downloads. it wasd caused by firewall i'v got with mobo, i think it was nvidias
Posted March 27, 2009
Sorry that you're still having trouble with the download ;-\
The above post from vangordon, about the firewall can help from what I've heard but I'd also like to suggest the following two posts:
Adding exception to anti-virus can help
Please send support the downloader log when contacting support
Posted March 27, 2009
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michaelleung: Use Flashget. Works for me.
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Aezra: I am, get a 403 error at 98%.

Did you give it a new download source? I'm not all that familiar with Flashget (I use GetRight), but I know with GetRight you can feed in a new download URL and it can resume from that without losing any progress.
Posted March 27, 2009
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Aezra: I am, get a 403 error at 98%.
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Arkose: Did you give it a new download source? I'm not all that familiar with Flashget (I use GetRight), but I know with GetRight you can feed in a new download URL and it can resume from that without losing any progress.

I've tried to search for new mirrors with the mirror manager but it doesn't find any new ones. Also when I try to verify the mirror that's there (bitcast-a.bitgravity.com) it comes up with not found. I would try manually except I don't know any mirror URLs.
I've tried firefox again so hopefully it completes, it's just slow. I can't use the downloader atm, it just stays minimized in the taskbar.
Posted March 27, 2009
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Aezra: I've tried to search for new mirrors with the mirror manager but it doesn't find any new ones. Also when I try to verify the mirror that's there (bitcast-a.bitgravity.com) it comes up with not found. I would try manually except I don't know any mirror URLs.

No public mirrors exist; you need to copy a new source URL directly from GOG.com. Once you feed that in it should be able to pick up where you left off.
Posted March 27, 2009
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Aezra: I've tried to search for new mirrors with the mirror manager but it doesn't find any new ones. Also when I try to verify the mirror that's there (bitcast-a.bitgravity.com) it comes up with not found. I would try manually except I don't know any mirror URLs.
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Arkose: No public mirrors exist; you need to copy a new source URL directly from GOG.com. Once you feed that in it should be able to pick up where you left off.

Ahh ok. How do I do that?
Posted March 27, 2009
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Aezra: Ahh ok. How do I do that?

On the account page, choose to download a game through the browser. Rather than clicking that link, right click it and choose Copy link location (or whatever it's called on your browser). This will give you a new source URL which you can then paste into Flashget.
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Posted March 27, 2009
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Aezra: Ahh ok. How do I do that?
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Arkose: On the account page, choose to download a game through the browser. Rather than clicking that link, right click it and choose Copy link location (or whatever it's called on your browser). This will give you a new source URL which you can then paste into Flashget.

Cheers, I'll give that a crack.
Edit: Awesome, that's working :) It's strange though. It goes perfectly fine right till the end then it gets the server error. I still had to repaste the URL twice before it finished downloading. Anyway it's all finished, thanks to everyone that replied.
Post edited March 27, 2009 by Aezra
Posted March 27, 2009
GOG community pulls through again. I love you guys...
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