On 31/03/06, Mark Pulley <mrpulley@tpg.com.au> wrote:
On 31/03/2006, at 9:00 AM, Nic wrote: iTunes has a built-in podcast downloader, but I have found it slow at times. I had trouble downloading They Might Be Giants' second podcast with iTunes. (I am on dial-up on a 4 hour session limit.) I only got halfway through downloading the file when my 4 hours was up, and then iTunes deleted the half-downloaded file. Downloading the file directly from the web site was much quicker. Are all podcast downloaders slow, or is it just iTunes?
I am subscribed to around 40 feeds (some are monthly or less often, some daily). Some download at my maximum DSL rate (currently 2 meg), others peak at 28kb, which happens to be the typical maximum DSL uplink rate. I don't know how iTunes handles this, but Juice is based on bittorrent type technology, and it has the ability to resume partially downloaded sets, and manage multiple streams. However I have found some instances that it is quicker to save the file, but I know this is in some cases due to poor XML coding, and the podcast receiver doesn't sucessfully manage the feed. Having said that, in the main Juice is as fast as doing a SAVE AS, but I can also select how many concurrent streams so can be effectively quicker if my downstream rate is faster that the aggregated feed rates. In your case, resuming partial downloads (it keeps a PARTIAL file type) may help you for dial up. -- Regards, Nic. We are the architects, not the victims of our own destiny