If you have trouble downloading due to disconnects or partial downloads, I suggest trying a Bittorrent-type client.

However sharing files is not for the technologically-faint-of-heart. If you cannot use file-sharing, and you are still having difficulties, I suggest Free Download Manager. It’s free and will help with speed issues and with partial or failed downloads.

Still have trouble? Tell us about it by commenting below.

Steve

If you cannot play a video you downloaded from Vision for Chile, please let us know by commenting to this post. I will try to help you troubleshoot it online and then others having similar problems will be able to read this thread and get help when I am unavailable.

One person downloaded the file but his media player would not play it. He said he was receiving an error message that indicated something about compression format not being compatible. I believe that the codec used to compress the file was compatible with Windows Media Player 9. If you have trouble, make sure you do a Windows Update and ensure that you have the most recent version of Windows Media Player.

As it turned out, this person was not getting a complete download of the file. If you’re having trouble downloading, read this post.

Vision for Chile does not pay for web hosting. This matter is cared for by Steve Shields of shieldsgroup.com. The amount of bandwidth needed for distributing large files may be more than our server allows in a 30 day period. Therefore, we encourage our more advanced computer users to download Bittorrent or a similar client and use it.

Additionally, Bittorrent-type clients are helpful to people who use dial-up as they generally can continue an interrupted download the next time you connect.

Steve uses Azureus because he likes the purple frog and the concept of Open Source Software (remember, Steve is Scottish, so free is an important word to him). Additionally, Azureus is one of the most popular and highly rated clients of this type. You can find Azureus at http://azureus.sourceforge.net/.

After downloading and installing it, along with the latest Java JRE, you can help share the files at visionforchile.org by downloading what you want and keeping your Bittorrent client open. If using a router, you will probably need to set it up to work with file-sharing. A good technical site for setting up your router is http://www.portforward.com/.

If you have questions, please post them here as a comment. We’ll try to help you out.