Guest mahiles Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Here's my situation.. I am on a dial up connection. ISP disconnects me every 2 hours. I want to download a 40 meg file but it can't manage it in 2 hours. Now normally I'm fine because I use mozilla and I can pause the download, get d/c, reconnect and then tell it to resume downloading. But theres one file where it won't resume! I click resume and it does nothing which is getting me very mad. I've tried a mirror site and it does the same thing :x Is there any sites or does anyone know anyone who can split files online so the little people without high speed internet can download? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 Did we try kget or wget or downloaderX yet? If you want, you can post a link (or send me) I could probally do a multi zip or rar and post for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 yes use a download manager Some servers do not support resuming downloads in which case you would be out of luck. wget from console wget -c filepath btw what a crappy ISP i assume you have no alteratives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vdubjunkie Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 wget is the ONLY way to download files IMHO :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 Konqueror has a built in resume feature. If you look at files it downloads it they have ".part" stuck on the end, this gets removed when the download is finished. If your download gets interrupted all you have to do is start it again and save to the smae directory, Konqueror will ask if you want resume or start from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mahiles Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 Nope nothing works so the server but not like resuming :( No matter I'll get someone to split it up for me.. Well as far as I know I have no alternatives to my ISP, I'd get some form of high speed internet but I only live in a small town and as always we often get forgotten! Thanks again for the suggestions.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vdubjunkie Posted August 30, 2003 Report Share Posted August 30, 2003 Here's my situation.. I am on a dial up connection. ISP disconnects me every 2 hours. this may not be an option, but for me I would have to say the real fix is "time for a new ISP." :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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