I like the info given by Mori, but perhaps it should also mention sites like http://www.oblivion-online.com which offers mod hosting with much less hassles than Fileplanet affiliates? There are other mod hosters that do that too, but that one is the first that came to mind.

I made this post so that people can learn to work fileplanet, and download the some 2000 mods there. you could always upload it to elricm too or tessource. Its just that alot of people can't get on fileplanet or download stuff, so they can't get all the mods that are hosted there and not anywhere else, (especially since only the mods pre-feb made it from tesmods to elricm)

Hmm, that is really wierd....
I have no problems getting on the Summit or FilePlanet using either IE or Firefox.

There is the small possibility that it is your ISP that is causing the problem. As an example, my ISP recently did an upgrade (???) to their broadband service, but after they did that, I couldn't get on the Thelys website or get on Kagz's forum page.

Nerra may be on to something...what ISP are you using? i'm using Optimum Online Cable internet...

Just a quick note:

http://www.powerarchiver.com/ opens all formats mentioned here(as well as many I've never seen).

Very functional and easy to use.

@Professor Blight: I quoted you in the first post...just so you know...

Just a note on the FilePlanet/FireFox thing. If you've turned off Java and/or JavaScript in the Tools/Options/Web Features menu-option/s in FireFox (as I often do for security reasons) you will experience no end of trouble with FilePlanet.

Selecting them both and refreshing the page will, of course, set things to right again.

Das Bump.

ZipGenius 5 has 7zip.

Danke

Princess, usually found at number 8 in the Fileplanet queue...

Hmm...for the record. I've never had a problem accessing Summit with either firefox or IE. Both with default security settings. And earlier when I was talking about wait times I did mean all the larger files as well as the tiny ones that bypass the fileplanet server. I just never seem to have to wait when I go through Summit to get any file in it's database.

You dont wait for the ones on Summit because summit doesn't use the que lines. only fileplanet does.

covert bump

bump for the after school/work crowd...

Bellsouth. Actually is Bellsouth in both locations, as I've tried both at home and at work. (Yeah, I know, naughty naughty.) But different accounts, and different IPs. If FP is blocking Bellsouth for some dumb reason, there's not much I can do about it, as they're pretty much the only game in town around here, (unless I want to go back to *shudder* dial-up...) but I can't imagine why they'd do something like that. What always happens is I get the e-mail to activate the account, and I go online and try and type in the username and password, and it says that user name doesn't exist. So I try to create the account again, and it says that user name is already taken. Well, of course it is, I just took it! But it won't let me use it, so I try making a new account. I currently have 8 non-functioning usernames on FP. I even tried different passwords on some of them, in case it doesn't like certain characters (or is case-sensitive, etc.), but no dice. I've tried waiting 48 hours before logging on, in case it takes them time for an account to fully activate. Doesn't work. So far the only thing I've gotten out of FP is an inbox full of GameSpy spam. Frankly, I don't care anymore. If they don't care enough about the quality of their service to respond to tech support e-mails, then I don't feel the need to give them my business. I tried. I gave them a fair chance. EIGHT fair chances, in fact. I'm done.

you DO know that your username that you sign in as is your email account right?

Yeah, yeah. I've tried every possibility I can think of. I spent over a month trying to get that site to work. I posted long threads about it in these forums, and people came up with more suggestions than you can shake a stick at. Believe me when I say I've exhausted all options on this one. FilePlanet doesn't like me it seems, and the feeling is frankly mutual at this point. Somebody else gave me their logon and PW, so I can get stuff if I want it now (once I've determined that it is not available anywhere else). But I've given up all hope of ever having my own account with them.

I sympathize with your problem, but I'm kind of wondering whether the problem is on your end, and not their end........

It has been a while since I signed up with FilePlanet, but the usual procedure when you get an account somewhere, the first email you receive has an account activation link you must click on before you can go to their website and log in. If you don't click on that link, your account is in limbo.....

I used BellSouth to download mods from the Summit and FilePlanet (and everywhere else for that matter) for a year and a half with no problem at all, back when I lived in Atlanta. Unless things have changed recently (I've been on a different ISP since Nov. 2003) I'm thinking it ought not to be a problem with BellSouth.

Yeah, done that. Whatever is supposed to happen, well, doesn't. I have the latest updates of everything, I tried with Java and Javascripts turned on, turned off all browser security and pop-up blockers, made sure no other programs are running which might somehow interfere, even tried hooking the computer up directly to the DSL modem instead of going through the router like I usually have it set up at. (Thinking the firewall might be causing a problem) I appreciate that people are trying to help, but really, I've done so many different things to try and get this working, and I just don't care anymore. Nothing in the world should be this much hassle. I haven't had this kind of trouble signing up for any other service on the internet, and I've registered with dozens of them, so I think I know my way around these things pretty well...

No, I didn't think it had anything to do with Bellsouth either, but somebody asked. Maybe I'm in some sort of "dead-zone" or something. (I've always thought of Orlando as a kind of dead zone in other respects...) Or maybe after the first couple failed attempts, FilePlanet assumed I was a trouble-maker and banned my IP, except that I tried from a different IP with no better results, and I got it to work from THIS IP using someone else's account, so that doesn't explain it. (Maybe only the registration system banned my IP and not the actual login, but I don't know if that's possible.)

I don't know. I don't really care either, anymore. I spent a month banging my head against a wall with these people, which is more than any service deserves. If they had the common decency to answer their tech support e-mails, I might feel differently about it. But at this point, I'm content to just piggy-back on the borrowed account somebody gave me, which I only use as a last resort when something I'm looking for isn't available anywhere else. In the past threads I've brought up the subject in, there were always a few other people who had experienced just as much hassle from this company, so I know I'm not alone in this. Inferior service + no customer support = no business from me.

a last bump for the night crowd

Umm, you really shouldn't bump your thread as much as you have been.
Excessive bumping is considered spam.

It's been 6 days, and even more threads have been popping up, so I bump...

I vote this topic should be pinned! Whos with me!?

~Arutha

Couldn't hurt for the first part of it to be put into the faq sheet anyhow. Though we all know that topics instantly seem to become invisible or something when they get put up that high on the page.

Damn, the login page doesn't even load for me

I'm on broadband, and this page just won't load...

Too many people asking bout fileplanet today. Bumpers.