Hi :) Is anyone on the Website's Mailing List and able to let them know there appears to be a problem? It might have been solved already or it might be really easy to fix quickly but only if we let them know we have noticed a problem. Regards from Tom :)
On 16 November 2013 19:21, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > By the sounds of it one of the mirrors is misbehaving. I'm not sure > how to choose different mirrors but if you can then choosing a French > one or any other non-default one might solve the problem. Hopefully > the websites team might solve the problem fairly soon. > > My initial suggestions were to "scope out" the parameters of the > problem. Wireless connections are often quite flaky flaky. > Torrenting deals with flaky connections quite neatly by allowing > partial downloads to be continued later on. To some extent just > normal web-browsers can also help with that but torrenting is very > much better at ensuring you get exactly everything you wanted to > download. Normal web-browsers are not always perfect at that as they > don't have constant checking and verifications built-in. Also they > sometimes restart downloads rather than just continuing from whatever > bits they did manage to get on previous attempts. Internet Explorer > often seems to cause problems but the rest are usually reasonably > good. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > On 16 November 2013 12:39, Bob Burr <[email protected]> wrote: >> I too have tried three times to download LO 4.1.3 en-gb. I am using Firefox >> and had no trouble in downloading previous versions. I don't understand « >> torrenting » and am not sure that I want to. If life is going to become as >> complicated as that then I would just as soon abandon LO and use another >> free program. >> >> R. Burr >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
