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#66 Strange behaviour in downloading

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nobody
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2005-01-14
2005-01-14
Anonymous
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Well, it's the French user again ! I'm back with another
strange thing, let me explain (or try to !) :

It concerns downloading this time, I have 2 questions
about it :

-Downloading seems to have a very strange behaviour.
Waste tries to connect, then begins transfer, and often
is disconnected (!!?) after a while, so it begins next
transfer... Finally, it downloads a part of the first file,
then a part of the second, etc..... so that it never
download a entire file in 1 time (unless it is a very small
file). The problem is that if you have a lot of files in
Queue, it will take a very long time to have all finished !

-The second problem is about queuing : if the user is not
connected, there is a timeout, and Waste tries to
download next file in Queue, making queue advance from
1 slot. Finally, if you had classified downloads by priority,
the queue is totaly different. For example (I know it is
not clear at all sorry...) :
You make a Queue on a user, you want to d/l a few
images and then a film, your queue looks like this :
*image1
*image2
....
*Image50
*Film (700MB)

if the user is disconnected, Waste will try each file one
by one, making queue advance, and finally when he will
reconnect, the queue will look like this :
*image49
*image50
*Film(700MB)
*Image3 (if the 2 first two images were downloaded)
*Image4
...
*Image48

Quite annoying, if you wanted to see images quickly !!
You will have to wait the film to be downloaded to have
images from 3 to 48 !

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