I keep trying to DL some big files with very little luck these days. I have to ask for a reset on some updates, I can't seem to get any of the products that I just bought. If the connection stalls, I can't click on the DL button without refreshing or I lose a DL. When I do get a connection it starts from 0 again. Burn disk is not an option, 6 weeks if I'm lucky pluss the extra price converted to my money, I don't think so. How do the rest of you on dialup do it. Maybe a different browser or some kind of DL manager that works? Please tell.

I don`t use dial up but I used to, you could try downloading the files at off peak times, 9 or 10 oclock in america would be a good time or after midnight in most other countries.

That doesn't seem to work any more. I tried from 10 pm and was up till 5 this morning, MST, Daz time, what ever you want to call it.

Using a DL connection, a DL manager is a necessity. You can lose your connection or turn off your computer and restart your DL right where it had stopped (no need to reset and start over). You can also program them to DL while your away or sleeping (go to bedwake up to your DL.cool). I use Internet Download Manager and it works perfect for me. Other DL managers should work just as well so search around to see what else is out there. One word of caution is to stay far away from the free DL managers, as they are loaded with ad/spy-ware and browser hijackers. SWAMP

Swamp,Have you been able to use one here at R'sity? I use GetRight, but I can't seem to get it to work here. I don't know why R'sity can't set it up like Daz so I can continue my D/L when it drops.

Do a google on "Free Download Manager". I don't download much, but when I do it's frequently a big program demo. This app is open source, I think, and has been reliable for me so far.

I have tried several DL managers including GetWell, FlashGet, FreeDownloadManager, etc., but not Internet Download Manager. None of those others I tried worked with MP at all and the MP staff told me that I could not use any manager or accelerator. I will look into Internet Download Manager. I just try to choose the best times to download... for example 5AM on a Sunday.

Many organisations don't like download accelerators because, if badly set up, they can put a big load on the server by opening lots of connections. Rosity's script is probably set up to disallow them. When I was on dial-up (and I apologise for the superior air implied in that staement), I used to download at work whenever possible, and bring files home on a USB Flash drive or CD. I realise that may not be an option, but if there's an Internet Cafe nearby you could probably use that - it wouldn't take long on a high speed connection.

I use dial-up, and I don't have download problems unless I put some other sort of strain on my connection when I'm downloading (like using my web browser to look at other things while downloading). The only thing that will disrupt a download for me is when there is instability on the other side (like frequent resets or something). When I buy things for download, I only buy one at a time, and I start big downloads just before going to do something else.

yes- don't surf, check email or anything. The word of the day is patience. RR's php setup dosn't work with any DL managers.

Internet Cafe? Can we say Road Trip and then I would have to find one when I finally do get to the city. Maybe I'll have to think about not buying from here anymore. I don't have these problems on other sites. geoegress, your right, patience, mine is just getting a little thin. Thank everyone, I thought I would give it a try with you folks, but you are all in the same boat as me, more or less.

beryld, I use a work computer when I make purchases from certain sites Like Rendo (different login account, more secure and much faster) so really cant answer how well Internet DL Manager works here. I do use it when at home for more secure sites with no problems at all. The thing is, any DL manager has to restart the DL from the same address. If that address changes it wont work. I have my firewall set to allow cookies from renderosity.com and market.renderosity.com, yet sometimes at night when I go to a new page, I get logged out. When I try to log back in I have to allow some redirected address (like in-addr.arpa) to use cookies or I cant get back in. Redirecting traffic changes the address that your DL manger cant use. Maybe thats what geoegrass is talking about (Im not that savvy about websites). If there is an item you cant live without, try contacting the merchant and see if they sell that item on a more DL friendly site (or have a server you can DL directly from). SWAMP

I've never had any problem downloading even 25MB stuff from the Marketplace. Well, maybe once or twice it's bobbled on me, but the second time is the charm when it does.

I don't recall if I've ever had to do it here, but a few times (like, say, Daz's March Madness days) I've had to start the download before I go to bed and leave it running while I sleep.

Which reminds me. Thank you, R'osity Marketplace, for giving me fair warning on file size so I'll know if I need to go see a movie or something while I wait. Half the time, I don't see a file size at Daz until I've actually clicked the "download" button and it goes "Here's your 35MB FILE!" and my connection goes "OMGNOES!"

For some reason I always get errors that crash out my 6-7 hour download about 5 hours in to it. I have not found a Windows web browser that can resume interupted downloads the way a download manager can. I am using Mzilla Firefox and sometimes MSIE for unstable downloads.

6-7 hours? Gah! ...worst case scenario, I have T1 and cool bosses at work and a little USB drive in my bag. :)

Swamp, I was thinking of doing just that, seeing if the merchants have another link that I could D/L from. I never had this much trouble in 3years or so till the last couple of months and only this site. I haven't worked in over a year after my stroke and there wouldn't be a computer to use anyhow when you built houses. Thanks anyways everyone. I'm off to cut the rest of my lawn before another thunder storm/tornado/flood happens tonight. My back lawn was over a foot tall, maybe I should put the horse on it. The lawn could use the fertilizer as well. LOL.

Opera allows you to restart interrupted transfers, but that's dependent on support from the server and not all provide it. I don't recall having to use that feature at Renderosity.

download accelerators can cause problems.

DAZ are working on their filesize problem. But they seem to be doing the geekish sin of entering the data manually. I've had better downloads with Mozilla Firefox than with Opera, but the Opera problem may be quite version-specific. The whole download accelerator issue depends on which side of the fence you're on. The sites don't like them, and they have some reasons not to. The customers do, and they have other reasons. As a customer, I think too many items come in too big a lump to download without some sort of download manager. The download-sites don't have to allow download managers for them to ease that problem.

"DAZ are working on their filesize problem. But they seem to be doing the geekish sin of entering the data manually." I don't realy understand at all, what does this mean? "As a customer, I think too many items come in too big a lump to download without some sort of download manager. The download-sites don't have to allow download managers for them to ease that problem." I detect a real bias toward the market with the money, rich folk with broadband. I wonder how the spending really breaksdown though between the small number of big spenders and the larger group of slow but steady consummers. I have no money to speak of ever but cumulativly I have shelled out a huge amount shoveling back Poser earnings into acquiring other peoples content. The other day doing back up I burned 6 CD-ROMs of purchases, all of it downloaded at 1.5kbs to 3.0kbs --is that 40+ hours of download? Often I feel I have to justify my dial-up status - as though I can just go out and get high-speed for a reasonable price (DSL isn't even available in my geographic location!). But honestly, every single, every single, Poser store and independent content provider I have ever dealt with has been honest, friendly and accomodating, and helped me as needed and made sure I was taken care of depsite my bandwidth issue. Just now nice people at CL/CP have graciously agreed to ship me the SR-1 and Content upgrades! I was thinking the other day about the weird download arrangements and decided they were anti-theft measures... but a re-distribution thief would not publish their own download key/URL to others would they? They would upload their file to a P2P server or a European or Asian host wouldn't they? Anyhow... I got to say it again. People in "the community" have been so honest and nice to me all through the years.

I think it all comes down to file size. R'sity needs to break up the big files. I have no problems with and up to about 15Mb. Anything bigger is a crapshoot. I too am in an area that all I can get is the slow dialup. Old phone lines. A file that is 20/25mb will take 2 or 2 and a half hours to D/L. C/L told me the same thing, but I never heard back. Like I said earlier, I never had this much trouble on this site till the last couple of months.

Mozillia Firefox.....With MSN dial-up....Rightclick save as....Unless the kids try to dial the phone.No problems. I dunno' if it is just me,,,But Firefox seems to hold D/L better than I.E.???? You wanna cry? Try getting some of the new "Payware" airplanes for M.S. Flight simulator!!! Some of those are 107MEG's

Now at Daz, I can lose a connection and all I have to to do is click on the D/L button again and it continues on. You can't do that here. I would like to know why R'sity can't do that or why they can't bother to do that. LOL, another one of those poser mysteries.

Why does Rightclick save as.... work better than clicking the link normally? My peeve is downloads that are .asp or some script or something instead of a conventional html link!!! Honestly, I would love a Netscape 2 complient Internet. Flash has never been my friend --a new version every week?. I feel animation and style sh--ts and all that are just the recourse of bad design. I used to run Opera in the Lynx simulation mode but it was too unstable... nice on the eyes and fast though. But back to my queston... why is Riight-click better than ordinary click?

Dunno why "Right Save As" works better. But from going to alot of FlightSim sites that is the only way most will let do it? You run into more and more places that wont'let use "Downloaders" And speaking from experience...DAP is not as nice to your computer as most would lead you you to belive. Just run "Spybot Search and Destroy" when DAP is installed! The other thing with Firefox is more times than not it will pick up were it may have left off.