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General discussion (archive)The benefit of blocking download accelerators?(21 posts)(21 posts)
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Posted August 20, 2013
If you are not a subscription site?

Just curious.

Everyone knows that downloading over 2 gigs through Firefox is near impossible without a mishap taking place and the download getting stopped.

Fox offers no resume feature either (but link me to a browser that does offer a resume feature and I'll ditch Fox for it immediately).

Either way there are a couple of sites I stopped visiting and removed from my bookmarks simply because they are no use anymore and torrenting proved much more efficient.

But as I understood sites made $ by their hit count therefor encouraging larger advertiser contracts. Maybe not.
Post edited August 20, 2013 by carnival73
Posted August 20, 2013
I really didn't think anyone would have a clever answer for this but food for thought never hurts.
Posted August 20, 2013
I've never really needed to aside from when my connection gets dropped sometimes, but Opera supports resuming downloads
Posted August 20, 2013
As far as I remember has Firefox a resume-function, but it works indeed not very good. The problem as far as I remember is that you need to pause the download before you can resume. And download accelerators work by using multiple connections the same time and so hammering the download server, that's why many sites don't like them.
Post edited August 20, 2013 by DukeNukemForever
Posted August 20, 2013
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adamhm: I've never really needed to aside from when my connection gets dropped sometimes, but Opera supports resuming downloads
Interesting...I also have Opera opened up right now as well...let me give it a shot. Thanks for the info.
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DukeNukemForever: As far as I remember has Firefox a resume-function, but it works indeed not very good. The problem as far as I remember is that you need to pause the download before you can resume. And download accelerators work by using multiple connections the same time and hammering the server, that's why many sites don't like them.
Firefox can resume from a pause but not a lost connection or shut down of the browser.
Post edited August 20, 2013 by carnival73
Posted August 20, 2013
I think Chrome can resume downloads? I've not used it much. Prefer to use torrents for things over a few hundred megs really.
Posted August 20, 2013
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adamhm: I've never really needed to aside from when my connection gets dropped sometimes, but Opera supports resuming downloads
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carnival73: Interesting...I also have Opera opened up right now as well...let me give it a shot. Thanks for the info.
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DukeNukemForever: As far as I remember has Firefox a resume-function, but it works indeed not very good. The problem as far as I remember is that you need to pause the download before you can resume. And download accelerators work by using multiple connections the same time and hammering the server, that's why many sites don't like them.
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carnival73: Firefox can resume from a pause but not a lost connection or shut down of the browser.
As a said, not very well implemented ;-) Try DownThemAll as addon, it allows you to use only one connection for download and also has the option to restrict the download speed.
Posted August 20, 2013
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carnival73: Interesting...I also have Opera opened up right now as well...let me give it a shot. Thanks for the info.

Firefox can resume from a pause but not a lost connection or shut down of the browser.
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DukeNukemForever: As a said, not very well implemented ;-) Try DownThemAll as addon, it allows you to use only one connection for download and also has the option to restrict the download speed.
I didn't know DownThemAll can resume downloads?
Posted August 20, 2013
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carnival73: Interesting...I also have Opera opened up right now as well...let me give it a shot. Thanks for the info.

Firefox can resume from a pause but not a lost connection or shut down of the browser.
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DukeNukemForever: As a said, not very well implemented ;-) Try DownThemAll as addon, it allows you to use only one connection for download and also has the option to restrict the download speed.
More effective than JDownloader? That's the one I was using.
Posted August 20, 2013
It's easy enough to set up the server such that it allows resuming but only permits a certain number of simultaneous connections per IP, so the core benefits of a download manager still work while the burden on the server is identical to downloading through the browser as usual.
Posted August 20, 2013
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DukeNukemForever: As a said, not very well implemented ;-) Try DownThemAll as addon, it allows you to use only one connection for download and also has the option to restrict the download speed.
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Tarm: I didn't know DownThemAll can resume downloads?
You can pause and resume for sure, but honestly I'm not sure if it also can resume broken downloads.
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carnival73: More effective than JDownloader? That's the one I was using.
Depends. Prorgams like JDownloader or Free Download Manager are in my eyes better, because they work independent from your browser, which means if your browser crash your downloads are still running. You should try to allow in JDownloader only one connection to the server, maybe that helps. If not, give DownThemAll or Free Download Manager a try.
Post edited August 20, 2013 by DukeNukemForever
Posted August 20, 2013
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Tarm: I didn't know DownThemAll can resume downloads?
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DukeNukemForever: You can pause and resume for sure, but honestly I'm not sure if it also can resume broken downloads.
If it can I'm going to use it even more than I already is. :)
Posted August 20, 2013
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DukeNukemForever: You can pause and resume for sure, but honestly I'm not sure if it also can resume broken downloads.
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Tarm: If it can I'm going to use it even more than I already is. :)
Pause and resume seems to work, but unfortunately no word about also resuming broken downloads.
http://www.downthemall.net/howto/features/

Seems you need to test it to be absolutely sure. I use it for my portable firefox and have no problems with it.
Post edited August 20, 2013 by DukeNukemForever
Posted August 20, 2013
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Tarm: If it can I'm going to use it even more than I already is. :)
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DukeNukemForever: Pause and resume seems to work, but unfortunately no word about also resuming broken downloads.
http://www.downthemall.net/howto/features/

Seems you need to test it to be absolutely sure. I use it for my portable firefox and have no problems with it.
The next time I download something big with it I'll do a test then. :)
Posted August 20, 2013
depends on the internet connection
i can download 10 GB no problem from a speeding server

but Internet Download Manager may help you...
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