At 01:37 AM 11/7/99 -0500, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
>At 06:04 PM 11/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>As good as the 'net was in the LA hotel where the meetings took place, it
>>wasn't good enough to upload ~85MB video files on the first try... or the
>>second or the third! So we tried a few times with the especially large 11/3
>>file but failed quite consistently... will have to do it from Cambridge once
>>we get the computers unpacked and back on the 'net.
>
>Ben, there are free FTP programs that will pick up where they left off;
>that is they will resume a transfer.
>
>I live in a rural area where the phone lines are anything but stable. I
>can usually expect to get disconnected 1-4 times in a 24 hour period,
>yet I have no problem ftp'ing many hundred-megabyte files at 28.8 Kbps.
>
>
My son swears by File Hound. Me? I dunno.
Bill Lovell
