Binary grabber recommendation.

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Witchsmeller

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a good binary grabber, I'm currently using Grabit,
which I find pretty good, but it seems a little short on options.

I'm still using dial-up & my ISP auto-disconnects after 2 hours, without
fail (freeserve), but I've set windows to auto-reconnect once the line is
dropped. Therefore, the one feature it must have is the ability to resume
downloading after a reconnect, until the whole batch is completed. I've had
a look on webattack but didn't see anything that seemed suitable.

Cheers, Jase.
 
Witchsmeller said:
Hi,

Can anyone recommend a good binary grabber, I'm currently using Grabit,
which I find pretty good, but it seems a little short on options.

I'm still using dial-up & my ISP auto-disconnects after 2 hours, without
fail (freeserve), but I've set windows to auto-reconnect once the line is
dropped. Therefore, the one feature it must have is the ability to resume
downloading after a reconnect, until the whole batch is completed. I've had
a look on webattack but didn't see anything that seemed suitable.

Cheers, Jase.
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Give Binary News Reaper (BNR2) a try:
http://www.bnr2.org/

It has a few minor quirks, but works better than anything else I've tried.

Andy
 
Give Binary News Reaper (BNR2) a try:
http://www.bnr2.org/

It has a few minor quirks, but works better than anything else I've
tried.
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Further to Andy's recommendation, I can attest to the fact that BNR2
will resume downloading after your connection has been re-established.
I'm on DSL rather than dial-up, but once a few months ago I lost my
connection in the midst of d/l'ing a bunch of files with BNR2. Windows
re-established the connection after one minute, and BNR2 resumed the
downloads automatically.

BNR2 really excels at being a multi-server grabber, so if you want you
can add other servers to supplement your ISP's, such as the excellent,
free BigGulp (see http://www.readfreenews.net/biggulp-faq.html ).


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mcubed said:
Further to Andy's recommendation, I can attest to the fact that BNR2
will resume downloading after your connection has been re-established.
I'm on DSL rather than dial-up, but once a few months ago I lost my
connection in the midst of d/l'ing a bunch of files with BNR2. Windows
re-established the connection after one minute, and BNR2 resumed the
downloads automatically.

BNR2 really excels at being a multi-server grabber, so if you want you
can add other servers to supplement your ISP's, such as the excellent,
free BigGulp (see http://www.readfreenews.net/biggulp-faq.html ).


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| Michael M. ~~ (e-mail address removed) ~~ New York City, NY USA |
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Michael, thanks for the clarification. I should have explicitly noted that
BNR2 would actually do what the OP was looking for.

As you said, it will resume downloading automatically anything still in its
queue. You can also pause downloading and/or close BNR2, and it will pick
up again the next time it's launched.

Unless you don't want these things to happen. In which case you would
disable "connect on demand". It's quite feature rich, lots of options.
Only thing it won't do is post, and that's by design. That can be a little
annoying sometimes. :-)

Andy
 
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