On Sat, 11 May 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: > NT has a facility to create a list of Mirror sites on it's own.This > facility appears to use either something called archie.is.co.za ( a > real site ? ) or www.filesearch.ru and I used it to go look for > these mirror sites for me, it found about 10 , which was not that > great , I know for a fact getright would of come up with about 18 or > more.Still a very useful feature. I still haven't found out how to > get nt to "ping" these websites in order to create a list of the > best download speeds available, I suspect it can, either it does it > automatically, or it needs to be told to do it for you.
ProZilla / ProzGUI (http://prozilla.delrom.ro/) has these functions too. Imho it's filesearching for mirrors works better, and ProzGUI has not only the ftp-search and multiple thread options, but also threads from different servers at the same time (ideal for users on a high band-width). It does not have the intergration featured that NT has though, but can be invoked my the command line. ProZilla (text based version) has everything except for the multi-thread_with_multi-server option, and is included with the Mandrake distro. > There doesn't seem to be any limit on the number of active downloads. Ditto. > Now that I have a spare partition set aside for the purpose , I found > that nt was quite happy to download my files directly to a directory > in that spare partition, which is a good thing because if you should > get locked out of your OS for whatever reason during a long download > then all is not lost and the partially downloaded file will be there > to resume upon OS reinstall. Again ditto ;-) .. Although getting locked out of your distro...?! You must have been a very bad boy to get punished like that... LOL. > nt also has the means to schedule your downloads .I don't use this > facility much, and I haven't tried if yet , but I should think it > works OK. NeitherProZilla or ProzGUI support this feature (yet), and maybe never will. The "workaround" with the console was to run "at" with the downloads with the console version. The reason why I reply to this is that many users do not require an over-featured / bloated download manager, when in actual fact all it does is download. If it would wash the dishes, and maybe make the bed now and then I would maybe also use it =) Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/
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