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reculvermary
05-26-07, 11:52 AM
Hi Everybody, Ive got dial-up and need the 1.2 patch badly can anybody be kind enough and possibly e-mail me the 1.2 patch to c5harple5@yahoo.co.uk as it takin me 22hrs to download!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:down: I would be very grateful. Thanxs.:damn: :damn: :damn: :damn: :rock:
Hi Everybody, Ive got dial-up and need the 1.2 patch badly can anybody be kind enough and possibly e-mail me the 1.2 patch to c5harple5@yahoo.co.uk as it takin me 22hrs to download!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:down: I would be very grateful. Thanxs.:damn: :damn: :damn: :damn: :rock:
Yep, wll send shortly. You're lucky I had it sitting around on my computer.
Waiting for it to attach
ReallyDedPoet
05-26-07, 12:02 PM
Nice gesture Shyzar:up:
RDP
I got an error with outlook express when I tryed to send it. It said An error has occured. I'm going to try withh my own email waiting for it to attach
reculvermary
05-26-07, 12:37 PM
I will send u an e-mail when i recive it Thankyou so very much:D
Bad news, I don't think it will work. My computer doesn't want to cooperate (this is a 498 MHZ machine with 64MB of RAM though) and my email doesn't allow attachments of more than 5MB. But if you have a USB stick, that's the best way to go. Download it to the USB on another computer with better internet, than transfer it too yoour computer. Thats what I do.
But I'll try one more timewith outlook
I will send u an e-mail when i recive it Thankyou so very much:D
I want to see if outlook express works for me. I will send you an email, subject outlook test. If it works I'll try again with the file.
spdklls
05-26-07, 01:09 PM
If you can't D/L the patch from the web on dialup, how you gonna D/L the email attachment on dialup. The email will take just as long to D/L as the patch!:hmm:
Sending the file, I pressed send and outlook stopped responding, but i've learned that that doesn't always means it won't, it means it's processing it.
If worst comes to worst, I'll try it on my other 1.4 gig 256MB RAM computer
There seems to be a problem with how large the file is. I think its too big to send over outlook. Anybody here know if this is right or wrong and whats the biggest file you can send?
I'll send you an email with a small text attachment. If it works, it is probably the filesize that is the problem
UnSalted
05-26-07, 01:39 PM
Most ISPs limit the size of files you can transfer in mail IIRC.
I'm going to compress it. Which compressing tool makes the file the smallest?
I tryed WINRAR. Compressed file from 147 to 100 MB but still too big to send.
MONOLITH
05-26-07, 02:12 PM
Spdklls is right. I'm not sure what the difference is going to be. If he's downloading at 56K, that's all he's gonna get whether it's from your mail sever or the website.
Also, I don't think any mail service will let you attach something that big.
You could try MSN messenger transfer instead?
If it's a problem of the source website uploading too slow to him, I could put it on my server; but I think his 56K is going to bottleneck him no matter where he gets it from.
Time to enter 2007 and dump that slowband.
There seems to be a problem with how large the file is. I think its too big to send over outlook. Anybody here know if this is right or wrong and whats the biggest file you can send?
Max file size On AOL is 16Mb.
Ahoy!
When I downloaded files on dialup, I used a program called GetRight. It allows segmented downloading. Download and setup GetRight, then use GetRight to download the patch. If the transfer is interrupted, no problem, as it will resume downloading where it left off. Sorry, but big files take a long time on dialup, that is just the way it is. Good luck!
Capt. BC
SteamWake
05-26-07, 10:15 PM
I'll send you an email with a small text attachment. If it works, it is probably the filesize that is the problem
Ya think ?
theluckyone17
05-26-07, 10:15 PM
Egads. Yeah, no matter which way you look at it, downloading that large of a file is going to be a pain on dial-up. Your method won't make it faster... as long as you're downloading it, it's gotta go through the dial-up.
It's kinda like sucking a really thick milkshake through a tiny straw (kinda like the one's normally sticking out of a can of WD-40). Stir it all you want, it's still gonna suck hard.
I'd say find a friend that has broadband, and download it there. Or private message some helpful member of the board (I'll volunteer myself) with your snail mail address... have them download the patch, burn it to a CD for you, and send it via snail mail. As slow as that may sound, it'll still be faster than dial-up.
UnSalted
05-27-07, 12:46 AM
I use dialup. The 1.2 patch was about 8.5 hours I think. But like the man said above, GetRight makes it much much easier to live with. Doing a DL in 4 or 5 chunks makes a huge difference. Just be warned though, not every server is GetRight friendly.
Zantham
05-27-07, 01:06 PM
Or you can try Free Download Manager. It will support resuming if your connection breaks, and can also split up your downloads, and works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Its available in a couple dozen languages or so. And its completely free.
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm
MaxT.dk
05-27-07, 02:44 PM
What the hell are you all talking about? Downloading from email will take as much time as downloading from the web as someone already said here... Actually it'll take even more time because the file would have to be reencoded for the mail attachment format... Duh... :rotfl:
i call shenanigans. no one has dial up anymore. thats so 1995.
theluckyone17
05-27-07, 10:08 PM
i call shenanigans. no one has dial up anymore. thats so 1995.
Heh. Don't I wish. I've had clients buy a new PC, pay for me to come out and install it for them, etc... just to find out that "we've got dial-up, we don't feel that we use the internet enough to pay for broadband." Or I know they can't get dial-up, 'cause I had to drive three miles down a dirt road to get there, and I seriously hope these guys aren't mostly-crazed people who have watched Deliverance too many times, since nobody's gonna hear me if I start screaming bloody murder.
I hate dial-up. :shifty:
Anyway... so... to get this back on topic...
Hi Everybody, Ive got dial-up and need the 1.2 patch badly can anybody be kind enough and possibly e-mail me the 1.2 patch to c5harple5@yahoo.co.uk as it takin me 22hrs to download!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:down: I would be very grateful. Thanxs.:damn: :damn: :damn: :damn: :rock:
Did you get the disk?.. If not I'd better chase it.
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