Need Help about downloading

[voltron540]

I am a pretty new user to the whole downloading games and such from P2P, and I often have questions I can't answer cause I don't know. I am currently download a game from a P2P that is 740MB or so in zip format. There is a option that you can preview the file and when I click it it says the file is curropt or something, I was wanting to know if its just because the file isin't finished downloading or is the file corrupt and should I just cancell it now? Also my download speed is going an average of 2KB, and I have a 56K modem and dial up, is that speed normal or do I have to do something to speed it up?? Could someone please help me out...??THanks

[Miniver]

Preview is only for audio and video files, not games.

[hawkburn]

Anything below 8 KBps is normal with 56k.. dont plan on getting up to anything past 7 though.. but it says the file is corrupt because you cant preview zip files. It's not possible the last time I checked.

Just my opinion.. I would make sure thats a confimed file before I would go download 740 MB on a 56k line.

[Miniver]

I can't imagine trying to download a 750 meg file on 56k. It was slow enough just trying to browse bbs's in ascii.

[voltron540]

Thanks. Yeah I ve been downloading scince like Sunday, and Its still not finished yet like two more days to go.

[voltron540]

hey another question I have is that I've tried to dl movies before and like no of them worked, in fact the only ones that worked were these movies from TMG, I was wonder what that stands for like is it a file name or something and do you have to have a DVD drive of your pc to watch DVD movies you download??

[Miniver]

Yup, that's about right.

[Miniver]

hey another question I have is that I've tried to dl movies before and like no of them worked, in fact the only ones that worked were these movies from TMG, I was wonder what that stands for like is it a file name or something and do you have to have a DVD drive of your pc to watch DVD movies you download??
Most likely you need the codecs required to play them. hold on a sec and I'll get you a link for a codec pack.

[moneoa]

hey another question I have is that I've tried to dl movies before and like no of them worked, in fact the only ones that worked were these movies from TMG, I was wonder what that stands for like is it a file name or something and do you have to have a DVD drive of your pc to watch DVD movies you download??
TMG is the name of the release group. If the movies wont play they might need the proper codecs. If you perform a search for codecs in the forums you will get plenty of info.

[Miniver]

Check this thread out http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=22106

download the smallest k-lite codec pack

[voltron540]

Cool Thanks.

[hawkburn]

Yes, TMG is a release group. They always include their name to get credit.

And yes, you must have a DVD drive installed to play retail DVD movies. If you could do it with a cd-rom drive, DVD-Rom drives wouldnt be around ;-)

[Miniver]

I'm not sure you can call tmg a release group. All they do is take releases from other groups and reencode them to divx.

Edit: I think it's TMD not TMG

[voltron540]

Does anyone know the best P2P place for downloading pc games?? Ive found emule is pretty good, cause I was using kazaa and like my PC would say "Virtual Memory running low" when it was on for awhile, with EMule Ive had it on for like two days straight and It hasen't said it once

[rebirth]

/me cries for voltron.
I feel your dialup pain. Also, try eDonkey 2000 1.0- it seems to be going MUCH faster than eMule was for me. I cannot imagine your patience to download a 740 meg file on dialup. That just SUCKS.

[jeffthejiff]

Bittorrent is quite good for games etc too, perhaps better for a 56k because of the shorter queues etc.

[voltron540]

cool I might try it

[newbornbliss]

i get impatient downloading a web page on my computer

[voltron540]

The game Iam dl right now is almost finished its a total of 714MB and I am worried cause on the file details it says 18.5MB or like 3% is currupt and I am wonderin if the games actually goin work, does anyone know if like that matters or what cause I spent along time dl it and would like it to work but it does say 18.5Mb is currupt so..Does anyone know

[voltron540]

Hey does anyone know how to use Bittorrent? I just downloaded it but I can't use it, after the file finished downloading I click it to install it and it just took me to the website WTF. Can anyone help me??? God I suck

[jeffthejiff]

i replied to your other thread: http://zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=261025#post261025
dont start 2 threads about the same thing, might get someone angry ;)

[voltron540]

aw my bad, new to the whole tread thing and stuff