Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 02:37 schrieb Carlos E. R.: > The Tuesday 2006-02-28 at 21:56 +0100, David Wright wrote: > > > I would never dare to dowload such a big file using firefox or > > > mozilla... I wouldn't download even a 10 Mb file with it, it has barfed > > > on me at mid-download so many times on me... :-( > > > > Just downloaded 6GB from IBM using their download manager Java program > > under Firefox, although that wasn't one file, the biggest file was only > > 1.8GB. Apart from the odd server reset I've not seen any problems with > > it. > > My adsl can change IP in the middle of a download - it did that, in fact, > last time I tried downloading a 80 Mb file with Mozilla when there were > only 15 Mb or so left. Mozilla download manager whatever did not recover, > it just stuck there. I "Cancelled" it, lost the already downloaded part, > and retried with wget instead. > > Maybe you have a fully reliable network, or better luck.
Ah, ok... My router has a nice function which allows you to set the time to re-establish the connection, it is currently set for a 03:00 reconnect, an the provider only resets the IP once every 24 hours... Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
