movie downloads trouble on LM

[movietoff]

Hi All



I am on a Mac 10.2.8 system
I am on a dial up connection 56k ps

My usual download rate sits on about 3.7kb per sec



I am very frustrated!
I recently joined a movie download after downloading audio books and music for a year on LM AND HAVE HAD NO MAJOR PROBLEMS
I was lucky enough to download my first movie completely using the VLC to view, and was able to watch the movie I was very impressed.
However for the last 4 weeks! I have been trying to download more movies and I have not been successful with one.
I have been trying to think what I have done differently to my first successful movie download. The only difference is I did NOT preview the file while it was downloading.
I am able to download a file to a certain point usually to 3% of a file, when I preview the file I find the the full weight of the the file in the incomplete folder ie. a 700 MB movie is showing 700 MB when I think it should be only showing the MBs actually downloaded. Any way that is the only reason I can think off . I am thinking, if the preview mode is there one should be able to preview without upsetting the file. Have you any suggestions for me
thanks, I am not familiar with the jargon of this VLC so if you will explain to me in a laymans terms I would be most grateful.

Thanking you.

movietoff

[Lord of the Rings]

Control-click the top of the column of the download window & choose to show Vendor/Version. This will show which gnutella client program you're downlding from. If it's RAZA (Shareaza) then that might be why you're having problems. They are reknown for being difficult to connect with, slow speed offerings, etc. This is because they use multiple networks which require they upload as fast as they download so thus, there's not much left over for gnutella. Raza users do tend to have the most videos however.

Get into using Bitzi, & if you haven't seen it already, see Movie download issues

Downlding such large files whilst using dial up is a big ask. Whilst I used dial up, I never or rarely downlded files larger than 200 MB. Dial up only offers a max of about 5-7 KB/s upload & downld combined. If you want to keep downlding lots of videos, perhaps consider upgrading your connection to something like broadband for example.