| Why
does you site cost to download from | Because
it costs me money to bring it to you. I am not looking to make a profit on the
site, only to bring in enough money each month to pay for the expense of hosting
the site. This site is run on a shoe-string budget and your support is greatly
needed and appreciated. |
Whats
the difference between the FTP DOWNLOADING Account and WEB PAGE DOWNLOADING Account? | FTP
downloading requires you to install a seperate program that allows you to SEE
into my computer almost as if it was your own. When you log on you will see directories
like you would see in your own computer, while WEB Page downloading you see only
a Web page I set up with links for you to download, other than your Internet browser
no other program is required. |
| Is
that the only difference between the two accounts to access the shows. | No,
with an FTP you pay by the GB and have the ability to download at T-1 speeds or
as fast as your ISP or internet traffic allows you to download. You must also
share the T-1 with all users on the system, but you have full access to almost
60.000 shows on the server and with the right FTP program you can QUE up shows
and download all day and all night if you choose. |
| With
an Web Based download account you can download an unlimited number of shows can
for 30 days at one low price The speed is slower than the T-1 and you must share
it between all web page downloader on the system at the same time. You will only
see what shows I have linked for you to download. I will be adding new shows every
day. You can imagine with 60,000 shows its going to take me a while to link up
all the shows so they can be downloaded. Your downloading selecton will not be
as large as you would get with the FTP account. |
| Are
any of your shows under copyright? | I
do my best to ensure that each show put on this site is no longer under copyright
protection and is in the public domain. |
|
I signed up for a FREE FTP ACCOUNT why cant I download? Every time
I try I get an error or a show that is Zero in size. | You
can download as long as you are in the FREEBIE directory. Did you move out of
the directory and look around? There are only 18 shows you can download for FREE.
If you go anywhere else, you can view the shows, it will look like you are downloading
but you wont be |
| I
have lots of shows you dont have would you like some? | The
idea of this site is to make available as many OTR shows as possiable so YES any
that are not on the server is you are more than welcome to upload. To upload you
must have a PAID FTP ACCOUNT. I do not trade via the mail. I am rather strick
on what you may and may not upload, I will explain all this when you request an
uploading account, if you agree, I will be more than happy to set the account
up for you. For each Mb you upload you get a Mb back in downloading credits. If
I see you are not using the uploading account, i will remove it for housekeeping
sakes. |
| How much do your accounts
cost? | As of this writing
a FTP account is 7.00 per gb of credits. with price breaks as you buy more credits
at one time. I am still working on the Web page download site, so at this time,
I have not come up with a cost. |
| How
do I know when my money has been received and my account credited? | With
the FTP account you can see your credits each time you log on, Accounts are good
for one year from the last date of purchase. with the WEB Page downloading account,
its good for 30 days after that you will need to pay again to keep the account
going for an additional 30 days |
| How
much is a GB? | A GB
is 1,000,000 KBytes. Although it can vary and does, a 30 minute show on my site
is around 6 1/2 MB is size. If you you put that in bytes it would be 6500. If
you divide 6500 into 1,000,000 you will get 153.8 30 minute shows. So for $7.00
you can expect to get somewhere around 100-120 1/2 hours shows. Now not all my
30 minute minute shows are that small, some are smaller, and some are larger,
how many shows you get depends on how they were encoded. The length of the shows
also dictates how large the files are. |
| What
kind of quality are the shows on the site? | This
is really a difficult question to answer. We are in tune to stereo sounds and
speakers of today. One of the problems is that when we listen to the sounds of
yester-year we forget that audio radio waves have improved in leaps and bounds.
We expect to hear the shows from the 40's to sound like we might expect to hear
on toady's radios. I am no audio technician, nor do I have the time to listen
to all my shows. I make this guarantee: All my shows are of good enough quality
to listen to, if not I will remove it from the site and give you credit for that
show downloaded back to your account. Now what is good quality to some may not
be to others. I have and will continue to remove shows that I feel are poor quality,
when reported to me and I listen to them and agree. But I will not remove a show
because it has crackles or pops in it from its original recording. If you feel
you have received a poor quality show, let me know, I will listen to it and let
you know if I agree with you. 99 percent of the time a show is reported as bad,
I remove the show and credit the account or return the customer's money. You are
my ears. And I appreciate all the help I receive to keep the shows good quality.
If you seea [rotrs] in the title, it means that I have listened to at least the
first five minutes of the show and that five minutes met my approval. I will continue
to do my best to weed out bad quality shows. |
| I
am looking for a certain actor in a certain show from a certain date, can you
find it for me? | I can,
but I have created places on the web page YOU find that information yourself.
I deal with a lot of people every day and although I can answer general questions
it is difficult to answer questions in detail. On the site is a catalog, if you
download it you will have all the information at your hands I do. All my shows
are listed in that catalog. By using the find feature in your program you opened
the catalog up and search for any show you are looking for. Try finding it yourself,
if you cant find it, then I will be glad to look for you, but it may take a while
for me to answer you back. |
| What
is the hours of operations for the FTP server Web page? | 24
hours 7 days a week, the site never closes and most times you can find me working
on the site and server. |
| How
do I know the server is and web pages is up? | In
November of 2006 I moved all web pages to my server. If you can log on to my web
pages, they you can be assured my server is up and running and you should be able
to download with no problems. There are conditions that allow you to see the WEB
Page, be able to download from the WEB Page but not the server. While they are
on the same computer, they are run by two different programs. If you are not able
to see the WEB page chances the server itself is down. |
| Can
I log in more than once to the ftp site? | Yes
as many times as you like and what the program you are using will allow. I have
no restrictions. But if you abuse the system by HAMMERING it. I will kick you
out and limit your connections. Hammering is where you keep trying to access they
sytem without actually logging on. This can be because the show no longer exists
or you have run out of credits. |
| I
am logged in but I cant get my maximum speed. | There
may be several reasons for this. One is the number of users on the site. Remember
this is site has a limited amount of bandwidth available even though its a T-1
Line and it can get very busy at times. Other reasons for it is with your ISP
and your connection. If you cant get the speed you think you should have, re-log
on later, if that don't work let me know and I will see if its anything on my
end, but generally there is nothing I can do. For faster speed, log on during
the over night times when the server is slow. Remember I am on Eastern US time |
| Every
time I log on and click a file or directory, it say no such file or directory?
| Make sure you have "Cashe"
turned off. If you like the speed "Cashe" give you, then you MUST refresh often.
Cashe puts a file on your computer that it reads to "load" the ftp program. It
is updated every time you go into a NEW directory but it assumes the previously
views directory has not changed. It is a good way to go when you are using a site
that does not change often, but because I am always moving, renaming or deleting
programs, the site is in a state of flux and if you log into a directory that
has been changed or deleted you will end up getting errors if you don't constantly
refresh your files. Can I use any FTP program and do you support them? |
| Can
I use any FTP program and do you support them? | You
can use any program you like, but some just don't work with my server. Because
there are so many out there, I have limited myself to working with only FILEZILLA.
It is a free program and free is good! |
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