Not For Dial Up

[Persephone]

Welcome beginner. Please answer all of the questions below which may provide information necessary to answer your question.
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Which version of OpenOffice.org are you using?
What Operating System (version) are you using?
What is your question or comment? My comment is probably pretty simple and that is that the program no matter how awesome it looks is not for dial up users. For me a sixty mb program is almost twelve hours of headaches just hoping that I don't get disconnected which I usually do. Something as large as this program is def. not do able for me as a dial up user. I think maybe stating that might be of help to some users. Basically that if you are on dial up this might not be something you want to wait x amount of hours for or in my case most likely days. lol I have patience just not that much. Just a thought. Darn I was wanting to try it so much! It sounds awesome!

[jrkrideau]

My comment is probably pretty simple and that is that the program no matter how awesome it looks is not for dial up users. For me a sixty mb program is almost twelve hours of headaches just hoping that I don't get disconnected which I usually do. Something as large as this program is def. not do able for me as a dial up user. I think maybe stating that might be of help to some users. Basically that if you are on dial up this might not be something you want to wait x amount of hours for or in my case most likely days. lol I have patience just not that much. Just a thought. Darn I was wanting to try it so much! It sounds awesome!

You're only too right. Unfortunately most heavy-duty programs these days are not practical for dial-up users. People on this forum are not developers so they cannot do anything about the download site.


Some suggestions for you. Get a friend or colleague with access to a decent high-speed hookup to download it and save it to a USB or burn it onto a CD. I've used both approaches successfully. I prefer the USB approach as you can keep a couple of versions around.

See if you can download and save at the public library or at college or university.

The OOo website lists some distributors who may be able to supply you with a copy on CD for a very small fee.
http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/

Have a look at the computer magazines in your local news agent, book store etc. Bhikkhu Pesala reported on the Setup and Troubleshooting forum that Open Office 2.3 was available on the PC Advisor DVD for January 2008 and Hagar de l'Est reported it was available in a linux distribution.


Good luck. It is a very nice suite

[symtex]

Have a look here. I'm sure one of these fine folks could help you out with your problem
http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdro ... html#cdrom

Oops....beat me to it

[foxcole]

Believe me, I know the pains of dial-up intimately. If nothing else, you should get a download manager. These speed up the download by splitting the file into several pieces, so packets can be sent from each piece essentially simultaneously. (It's still not broadband-speed downloading, but it does cut the time down. Your 12-hour download would take somewhere around three or four hours. But --- twelve hours for a 60Mb download? That's insufferably slow even for dial-up.) And a download manager will be able to pick up where it left off in case the connection is dropped.

One that I use and like is actually Sun's download manager:
http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/download.xml

It's easy to use; you can just drag-and-drop links into its window.

[EdH]

To put things in perspective, MS Office 2007 service pack 1 is 218.3Mb, just for a patch.

You could order a CD instead, it might be cheaper than the combined cost of dial-up and electricity to keep your PC running all that time:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdro ... html#cdrom

Either that or have a browse through the cover discs on the array of PC magazines found in a newsagents, there'll almost certainly be OOo on one of them.

[Prester]

I got a link from the Kasparsky AV site for a download manager called ReGet Pro. It allows you to close a long download and resume from where you left off anytime. Wow! how cool is that?
Even an "accidental" quit is not problem. I did OOo upgrade at 127 M in way less time (yup, it really speeds up your Kbyte rate!) over two days during my usual computer time while doing other stuff. Thirty days free, or $9.95 to buy. That's less than a fast food lunch!
Type it and hit search. It'll show up.
Prester

[EdH]

I got a link from the Kasparsky AV site for a download manager called ReGet Pro. It allows you to close a long download and resume from where you left off anytime. Wow! how cool is that?
Even an "accidental" quit is not problem. I did OOo upgrade at 127 M in way less time (yup, it really speeds up your Kbyte rate!) over two days during my usual computer time while doing other stuff. Thirty days free, or $9.95 to buy. That's less than a fast food lunch!
Type it and hit search. It'll show up.
Prester

But why pay money for something when there are many free alternatives just as good?