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General pane. Click monitoring pane. Connections pane. Bandwidth pane. Proxy pane. Login pane.
In preferences window you control all NetPumper's features and options.
At this pane you control general parameters of NetPumper behaviour, including parameters of task start and completion.
Please, click on the control element in the picture below to find the description.
This switch controls an initial state of newly created task. The switch has three positions:
Default position is "start downloading".
This switch controls where to place files being downloaded. The switch has two positions:
"Ask user" position allows to assign different destination for every file, but requires your intervention in the beginning of every task.
Note that NetPumper will ask you about download destination regardless of this switch, if there is file name conflict in destination folder.
Default position is "ask user".
Default download folder is shown in this field.
This folder is a place where all or most of all downloaded files will be located (depending on Download to switch position).
You cannot edit the field directly.
To change the folder press "Change" button on the right of the field and select the folder with Windows standard folder selection dialog.
If this checkbox is checked, NetPumper will delete tasks from task list as soon as download completes. This will made download list shorter and easy to observe.
Note, that you can open downloaded files directly from NetPumper's window, so deletion of completed tasks is not always useful. To make download list easy to observe, you can use Show downloads filter in Main window instead.
NetPumper will not delete failed downloads.
Default value is "unchecked".
If this checkbox is checked, NetPumper will notify you every time when a new URL is added to the task list, and also when NetPumper refused to add an URL to the list. The latter case can occur if the same URL was added to the task list earlier.
This notification is suppressed if NetPumper interacts with the user for some other reason (for instance, NetPumper asks about destination folder).
This option is intended to help novice user to keep control over NetPumper's behaviour. It is expected, that user switches off this option after some experience with NetPumper.
Default value is "checked".
If this checkbox is checked, NetPumper itself and NetPumperIEProxy daemon will not show splash (logo) screen at startup.
Default value is "unchecked".
At this pane you control click monitoring in web browsers.
Please, click on the control element in the picture below to find the description.
This field controls click monitoring in the MS Internet Explorer 4.x-6.x and Netscape Navigator 4.x browsers.
You can
NetPumper compares clicked URLs with file masks in this field. If URL match one of the masks, NetPumper intercepts this click and adds URL to the task list.
Usually the mask has a form *.<suffix>, where suffix determines a type of file. These suffixes are often called "extensions" (of a filename).
You can also enter a more complex mask which contains path and/or server's name, but usually this isn't necessary.
The masks must be delimited by the semicolon character (";").
Note, that this field does not influence on Netscape Navigator 6.x and Opera. Click monitoring in these browsers uses different rules (see below).
In Internet Explorer x.x
and
In Netscape Navigator 4.x checkboxes enable click
interception in the browsers.
Default value in both checkboxes is "checked".
Note, that changes of the "In Netscape Navigator 4.x" checkbox state will not have effect until you restart Navigator. (Other settings will have effect immediately).
These fields controls click monitoring in Netscape Navigator 6.x and Opera 6.x browsers.
You can enable and disable click interception for three groups of resources:
Note, that your changes will not have effect until you restart the browser.
Note, that you usually have to have administrator's privileges in multi-user systems, otherwise your changes have no effect.
See more details in Integration with Netscape Navigator 6.x and Integration with Opera 6.x sections.
At this pane you control parameters of network connections and download process.
Please, click on the control element in the picture below to find the description.
This checkbox switches between conventional and 'passive' FTP mode.
This option helps to traverse some kind of simple firewalls (packet filters) and network address translators (NATs).
Use passive FTP mode if your workstation is behind NAT or packet filter firewall.
Consult your internet provider or system administrator in case of doubt.
This switch affects FTP transfers only and does not influence on HTTP transfers.
HTTP transfers can pass packet filters and NATs without special measures.
Default value is "unchecked".
This field defines a period between attempts to retrieve a resource. If NetPumper detects a network failure, it waits for defined number of seconds and repeats an attempt.
NetPumper makes 10 attempts to retrieve a resource. If all attempts fails, the task goes to Retrying state. NetPumper will execute next series of attempts after a period, defined by next field, Retry after.
This field defines a period, after which NetPumper automatically switches a task from Retrying to In progress state and executes next series of attempts to retrieve a resource. NetPumper will retry the task until it reaches Completed or Fatal state, otherwise infinitely.
These parameters controls when NetPumper decides that connection with server can not be
established or is no longer usable.
You rarely have to adjust these parameters.
The first parameter controls initial connection phase and the second one controls a phase of downloading.
Default values are 60 and 300 seconds respectively.
This parameter forces NetPumper to treat very short files as Fatal downloads.
If size of a file is shorter than value set in this option, download completes with Fatal
state.
This is useful with some HTTP servers which send error description in HTML (for
instance, 'File not found' in beauty form) instead of correct response code.
Such responses looks as successful downloads however they are not successful, of course.
This option affects HTTP transfers only and does not influence on FTP transfers.
To disable this feature set the value to 0.
Default value is 128 bytes.
At this pane you control a speed of downloading and bandwidth used by NetPumper.
Most of parameters at this pane are available in NetPumper Pro only.
Please, click on the control element in the picture below to find the description.
A number of tasks executed simultaneously.
You can limit a number of files downloaded simultaneously. The limit can be set from 1
to 10 or turned off ("Unlimited").
When NetPumper reaches a defined limit, it prevents new tasks to start. These tasks are
switched to Queued state instead of In progress.
When one task finishes and frees its network connections, NetPumper automatically
automatically selects and forces to run next ready task.
Incrementing or tuning off this limit you can dramatically increase a total speed of
transfers.
However, you computer and network connection will have a huge load, so use this option
with care.
Default value is 10.
A number of sections per file which are downloaded simultaneously.
NetPumper can split a file into several sections and download these sections simultaneously over separate network connections.
You can control how NetPumper splits and downloads files. Possible values are "Automatic", from 2 to 10 or "Disable".
Note that NetPumper can not split a file if a remote server have not resume function.
Note also that some remote servers limit incoming connections, so actual number of
sections can be less than you set.
Default value is "Automatic".
This parameter defines a scale for bandwidth schedule and history. It influences on view of bandwidth graphs and does not influence on actual connection speed.
You can select a scale from a number of predefined options.
Each option is labeled with maximum speed in
A value can be appended by suffix 'K' (thousands) or 'M' (millions).
You can also set this parameter at the Bandwidth
panel in the Main window and in the Schedule
window.
Default value is 1000Mbps.
A total bandwidth limit over all downloads.
If set, NetPumper will not download faster than this limit, keeping a network channel free
for other applications.
You adjust the limit with a help of a vertical regulator in the left part of the
window.
A scale of the regulator is defined by Bandwidth range
parameter.
In addition to limit value, you should define is limit actually applied to downloads of not (see Usage of the limit below).
Note:
Default value is 0.
This switch controls how bandwidth limit is used:
Note, that
Default value is "Ignore limit".
Use this pane if your workstation is behind a proxy server of firewall.
Consult your internet provider or system administrator about correct values to configure
connection with proxy.
The pane contains two subpanes: one for HTTP and one for FTP transfers. However, in most cases you can enter all configuration parameter using only the first subpane (HTTP).
Please, click on the control element in the picture of HTTP subpane to find the description.
This checkbox enables and disables usage of proxy servers in general.
If this checkbox is unchecked, all other elements at the pane are disabled.
Default value is 'unchecked'.
Press this button to fill all fields automatically, using settings of MS Internet Explorer.
This switch defines a protocol to use to connect to a proxy server.
Possible values are:
Don't confuse (lower level) proxy server protocol with (higher level) protocol of a
remote server (HTTP).
These things are different even in the case if the same protocol (HTTP) is used at
both levels.
Transparent proxy is a HTTP proxy server which is invisible for download manager and requires no connection, so you do not need fill in Host and Port fields.
Nevertheless, a transparent proxy may request user authentication with Login and Password.
The most popular transparent proxy today is SQUID proxy.
Transparent proxy server can not be used for FTP transfers.
Default value is 'HTTP'.
Enter here a hostname or IP-address of a proxy server.
Hostname must be in a form of internet domain name, f.i. 'proxy.ourfirm.com'.
IP-address must be in dot notation, f.i. '10.0.0.94'.
Enter a port number of a proxy server.
Enter your login and password at a proxy server.
Use these fields if the proxy server requires authorization, otherwise left the fields blank.
If this checkbox is checked, settings in this subpane are used for FTP transfers as well. In this case the FTP subpane is disabled.
Default value is 'checked'.
The FTP subpane is similar to HTTP subpane, with a few
differences.
Please, click on the control element in the picture below to find the description.
This switch defines a protocol to use to connect to a proxy server.
Possible values are:
Don't confuse (lower level) proxy server protocol with (higher level) protocol of a
remote server (FTP).
These things are different even in the case if the same protocol (FTP) is used at
both levels.
Default value is 'HTTP'.
This switch defines a dialect of FTP proxy protocol. This selection is important only if proxy Type 'FTP' was selected. The only dialect currently supported is
Other dialects will be added in the future.
These fields are similar to ones at HTTP subpane.
At this pane you manage information needed to access sites which require user's authentication.
The pane contains a list of login records. Every record consists of three parameters: URL
(resource address), Login and Password.
You can Add and Remove login records and Change
their parameters by clicking buttons below.
To select a record for Change or Remove, click on it or
move highlighting by pressing Up and Down arrow keys on the keyboard.
When NetPumper tries to access a site which requires user's authentication, NetPumper extracts Login and Password from this list. NetPumper selects a record by matching resource URL and URL from the record, using the following rules.
In both cases NetPumper compares login part of the resource URL, if present, with Login parameter of the record. Login also can be encoded in the record URL, (for instance: http://bill@www.microsoft.com). In such case it is checked twice: as part of the URL and as a record parameter.
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