Okay so, I've never posted on the forums before, but here it goes..

I've been using ShareCG sparsely off and on for the past three years or so and for that entire time I've experienced a ridiculous amount of difficulty in obtaining downloads from the ShareCG servers. I do have a dialup internet connection because I live in the mountains where broadband is not easily accessible to people, however, 3D rendering is a favorite hobby of mine and I usually get by just fine with download managers for larger files on other sites.

 Yet, ShareCG seems to block download managers from accessing download links outright. (I use FDM (Free Download Manager) which forces me to attempt downloading the file the old fashioned way through my browser (Firefox) this would be okay for the smaller files, I should be able to get files around 19/20 MB or more with stability using no download manager whatsoever but on ShareCG even a small 2mb download behaves erratically for me with random disconnections that corrupt the download, leaving it incomplete and causing me to just keep trying to download it over and over until my luck changes.

A year or so ago I did some researching on why ShareCG doesn't work with download managers and why the downloads themselves end up inevitably cutting off incomplete, and I read somewhere that there is a time limit imposed, where even if you have a stable connection to the server with no random disconnects, you only have around 45 minutes or so to obtain any one file.

This is obviously a decision made in bias toward the vast majority of users with modern internet connections, leaving those like me who still must rely on Dialup out in the cold. To me, this is simply unacceptable. There ARE still people who use dialup in 2014 and they should still be considered valid members of the community, so why can't the site be reconfigured or updated to be friendly to narrowband users as well? At the very least, we should be able to use our download managers to obtain any file by being able to resume a download at our convenience and eventually have a complete, finished file.

ShareCG is one of the biggest 3D resource communities available, and it has countless fabulous free offerings from great artists, so it really is a slap in the face to some that we can't obtain any of these resources simply because we don't have broadband connections.

Regards, Ultraborg