Download
Connection
Graph/Log
Monitor
Performance
System Settings
Explorer

Download

Directory

Store the actual file to a specified default folder. Click the push button on the right side to browse and select the destination folder.

No Cache

Some proxy servers like WinGate store browsed data into its cache. When someone requests access to that data later, the proxy server will retrieve the data straight from the quicker cache instead of getting it from its original location. Check this option to tell Net Transport to use cache or not.

Cookie

It is available for mail servers, without cookie download won't be successful. Most HTTP, FTP servers do not need cookie, if sending, resuming may not be supported, like Microsoft.

Passive Mode

Determine whether client connects server (passive) or server connects user. Commonly the passive mode is much more safer.

via SSL (Secure Socket Layer)

Encrypt FTP sessions. In theory SSL guarantees data cannot be intercepted, cannot be translated even if being captured. So it is more secure, but need server support, at presently I know RaidenFTPD and Serv-U support SSL/TLS service. Note, HTTPS encrypts HTTP sessions.

Get file Date-Time from server

Keep the local files up to date with the ones on the server.

User-Agent

Some Web sites only allow to download from their sites via certain browsers. This option tells Net Transport to imitate IE or other browsers. If the field is left blank, "User-Proxy" will not be sent. Notes, "User-Proxy" belongs to browser and is not equal to proxy server.

Connection

Timeouts/Connection

Not connected within this connection idle time is considered as a failure connection.

Timeouts/Data

Not receiving any data from the server within this data idle time is considered as a receiving failure.

Retry delay

When error occurs, this value tell Net Transport how much time to wait to retry. Many FTP server will stop responding connections from one IP, if this IP repeats retrying due to any kind of connection problems. Use this value to avoid this problem.

Max simultaneous jobs

The maximum number of jobs is allowed downloading simultaneously. If the number of files needing download more then permitted number, some jobs will be waiting until other jobs are finished, then start. Modifying registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Xi\Net Transport\Connection\Max SimJobs(DWORD) allow maximum 128 Jobs at the same time.

Number of retries

Set the number of times to tell how many times Net Transport will attempt to reestablish when connection is failed. Checking "Always Retry" to let Net Transport not give up retrying until connection is successful or interrupted by user.

Speed Limit

This feature allows you to limit the amount of received bytes every second and help to browse.

KB/Second

The value of "Speed Limit" is displayed in kilobyte (KB) or byte (B).

Graph/Log

Scale

The maximum bytes of data transfer histogram. User should set this value according to the maximum speed your ISP can provide.

KB/Second

The value of "Scale" is displayed in kilobyte (KB) or byte (B).

Log window

Choose individual foreground and background color for different kind of lines.

Setting background color

Check/uncheck means choose background or foreground color for information lines.

Node Size

In the course window every dot represents how many kilobytes.

Reset

Reset this tab to its initial value.

Monitor

Confirmation

Notify user when a downloadable link is detected. "New Download" dialog will be popped up confirming this job.

Parse URL

In many cases, a URL sometimes does not point to the actual file but a WEB page such as acknowledgement, server selection, etc. This is a good feature helping user to browse or download.

Need to be parsed

Parse such URLs as site "download.pchome.net" whose file extensions are in the "Monitor types" text field. Uncheck if user's ISP is not good since this feature will slow down browsing.

Wild match

Parse such URLs as site "www.download.com.cn" which include "?". Uncheck if user's ISP is not good since this feature will slow down browsing.

Monitor type

Links or URLs with the listed extensions are considered as downloadable URLs. If a URL is not downloadable then it will not be added to job list.

Performance

Connection buffer

Store sending commands and relaying message, default 64K is enough.

Data buffer

Store received data packets. Save to disk when buffer is full. Commonly a value lower than 128K increases the saving amount and degrades performance due to disk operation is relative slower; but a value higher than 512K is not very obviously helpful only spending a lot of memory.

Sleep Time

This is very interesting and a key. It has effect on broad bandwidth networks very much. The lower this value is, the faster download performance is, the higher CPU usage is. Exceeding lower or larger value is not suitable according to user's machine, 0 is NOT suggested (CPU 100%), the default value 20ms is balance. User can try to find an optimal parameter. Under Windows 2000/XP, this value is set to 10ms, so that a thread bandwidth can reach to 1M bytes.

Auto save jobs interval

In order to minimize the loss of data due to any unexpected crashes or the similar cases, Net Transport saves the download list every some minutes. If crashes do occur unfortunately, you'll only lose the unsaved data. The lesser the value is, the safer jobs are, but the lower performance is because of disk operation increment.

Min Segment Size

Sizes under this value will not be assigned by any threads. The value shouldn't be too small, if so, will slow down performance due to saving frequently.

Reset

Reset this tab to its initial value.

System Settings

Start main window minimized

If unchecked, start in last quite state.

Code Page

This feature let Net Transport interpret text in certain language. It is very suitable that the HTML codepage is not the same as your OS. For example, you installed English Windows in your PC, when you browse Simplified Chinese HTML and want to download a URL with Chinese characters, if the codepage is "Default", Net Transport will show "??" instead of exact Chinese characters, due to English OS can't recognize GBK code. In this case, select "936 GBK" to resolve this problem. But firstly IE must have installed Simplified Chinese language package, in other words, IE can "know" Chinese. Of course, when you first time browse Chinese HTML, IE will ask you to install, after finishing, Net Transport will recognize Chinese also.

Explorer

Clear history

Clear URL history in the address field in the "Site Explorer".