Perhaps the most attractive feature about the WirelessGet software application is the ability to copy over Wireless / Wi-Fi any files or folders with resume capability and its phenomenal speed. Be it from a network drive, hard drive, USB Stick, DVD / CD or any other storage media (Including a wired LAN). As long as you have access to and the owner is allowed to share with you, copying over Wi-Fi is a breeze, public or private Wi-Fi hotspots locations or access points are no exception, you just need to have access to them!



Wireless file sharing is in the increase due to the popularity and integration of Wi-Fi technology in desktop and mobile computers (laptops or notebooks), PDAs and even mobile phones by manufacturers, which has now led to this technology becoming a household name. Most people refer to it as wireless, and what a good technology it is, no longer are we confined to our desktops at home or cooked up in our offices should we need to surf the internet. We can now be in a park, restaurant, hotel or even in trains and airplanes, we can still check our email, message family and friends, conduct business or run our remote servers and manage websites with ease. Having said that, any new technology never matures without teething problems, and Wi-Fi is no different, one of the problems is in file sharing.

All operating systems including Microsoft Windows™ with all its sophistication has a problem when copying files or folders from one laptop to another for example if you lost the wireless signal, though it's not the operating systems which is at fault here, sometimes the wireless signal drops out on you half way and you end up having to do it all over again, while this may not be very common, it is however a normal and expected occurrence when Wi-Fi networking.  To solve this problem, the WirelessGet application which is usable only under Windows™ at the moment, uses advanced and intelligent mechanisms to copy files safely and securely with memory and caching in mind. It also uses monitoring capabilities to know exactly when the signal was lost so it can save what has already been copied and what's left out for the next time you try and resume copying. WirelessGet does not rely on the size of the files or folders alone, but rather gets deeper into the files themselves using a sophisticated algorithm and count methods to avoid corrupting files when resume copying is initiated.

Imagine copying a 4.7 Gig DVD full of videos or songs, or worst still, when the only means of access to a backup is through wireless remote network, few Gigs of data backup from the master server at the end of the day's office hours of customers and clients orders, details or files...you want to get home but the signal stops and is lost at the last MB of a 10 Gig folder, with WirelessGet, you wait a couple of minutes for that signal to comeback and copy and past again, it'll not doi it all over gain, but resumes with safety where it stopped, copying only the 10 MB remaining, hence you get home maybe two minutes late instead of hours late if the files are important and you can't get home unless they are backed up safely.

WirelessGet is a freeware and has many handy features, Exit when you finish and the application just shuts down, Shut down when finished and it'll shut down the computer safely. Options such as controlling memory and cache...all though the "Drop Zone" which is a tiny floating windows you can Right Click it to manage those options and even make it disappear by un-ticking the drop zone box. Once you install it, you don't have to do anything, if you want to copy either from the same computer from one folder to another or from a network drive or computer, just highlight the folder or file as usual, right click and press copy, WirelessGet automatically flash its window asking to confirm the file or folder name (task name) you are copying, the original location, i.e the source path and the destination (save to), by default it does copy to C:\Program Files\WirelessGet\Default, so change that by pressing the browse (...) button and pick a folder or drive location. If you want to transfer / copy immediately, that option is the default, if you want to do it later, you can un-tick "Immediately" and choose "Manual" which will then save the task of copying to a later time and stores the task in the main window so when you click that window, you'll see that task (name of the file or folder) in Grey color icon, which means is waiting for you to right click it and either copy (Start or Start all if more than one file) or delete the task (cancel) and other options.

The manual transfer option is similar (to some degree) to resume printing a file or a page when you press stop printing, the next time you start the printer, you'll see the file again on its task window so you can print or cancel, however any files or folders have to be shared if from a wireless network or hard wired LAN. WirelessGet can also copy from a Wired LAN network as easy as over wireless and in most cases faster without any signals being dropped, though this process has less likelihood of interruption, nonetheless it can happen and WirelessGet deals with the situation just the same!

Tests: Using an average Intel Pentium 4 with 1.5 Gig memory and 54g Wi-Fi network connection WirelessGet was tested few times on copying small and large files in parallel to normal windows copying. When the signal never dropped, copying small files using normal windows copy was almost the same, though wirelessGet was only slightly faster, but when copying files over 1 Gig it was entirely different story, on average, WirelessGet cut the time in comparison to normal copy to up to a tenth, i.e the larger the file, the less time it takes to copy compared to normal use. One advantage is, wirelessGet can be minimized and you can get on with your work, with normal windows copy, that annoying flying files from one folder to another with the hard pinned window stays there until the transfer is complete, and you daren't close it or crash you machine, you end the transfer with a possibility of corrupt files and disastrous consequences, we all been there one time or another!

You can download WirelessGet from the WirelessGet site here:
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WirelessGet has many useful options and features, version 1.2 which was a commercial version now upgraded to version 1.3 with better help and support, different and easier install and un-install process and of course the license is freeware. WirelessGet was originally owned by BINT software and the Wi-Fi Technology Forum acquired the business including the site and the wirelessget.com domain around early 2008. Wi-Fi-TF aims to upgrade to the next version with a complete rewrite to include amongst other capabilities, Internet Legal File sharing, and are looking for capable developers to undertake the development task to the next level by mid 2010. Interested developers should email Tahar (contact AT wirelessget.com) with a career history or a brief Résumé / CV and either a quote or negotiate a partnership deal.

More about WirelessGet here: http://www.wirelessget.com/

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