Branded Download File Packager / MD5 Check

[skulkingghost]

I am looking for an unusual piece of software. My company hosts demo files for our networking product. With the amount of downloads we get, we get a few timeouts and corrupt files. I am looking for software they could download (almost like any MMO game down-loader in use today) that we can brand that will download our software files and put them in a directory while doing integrity checking on the files. Ideally we could add our own branding to it.

Anyone know os software like this?

 

[TheRyuu]

This is just my $0.02 but having to download something to download something else is beyond annoying, especially when it's some 10MB application. I suppose it depends what it might be used for though (e.g. blizzard's download/updater fits an ok use of it).

For smaller stuff WinRAR does has built in integrity checking (and recovery).

Pando might be something like what you're looking for (League of Legends uses this for their game downloader). Beyond that I'm sorry but I just don't know enough about it to make any serious recommendations.

 

[Leros]

Which end is the problem on (client or server)?

 

[lxskllr]

Bittorrent has built in checksumming. Modify a libre client to include the branding you want, and setup a seedbox to distribute files.

 

[AkumaX]

hjsplit's a md5 checker as well

 

[skulkingghost]

@LX
We are looking into bittorrent, we offer a VM client and it is about an 800mb download. We get a few people who time out on downloading or have other issues where the file is corrupt and want a good way to ensure we don't have as many issues in the future. Our server is pretty solid, but we have had a few timeouts on the download.

Our one concern is bittorent is blocked on a lot of corporate networks, but we may offer bittorrent as our primary, and a direct link as a secondary option.

 

[Cerb]

A lot of people complain about Pando because many games are quiet about the fact that they are installing it, and the PMB sits in the background sometimes. But, from a client (player) POV, it seems to works quite well. No idea of what it costs, of course, but it looks like they have a non-game downloader/installer without the background daemon thing.

 

[surajsun22]

free download manager???