Raymond Smith wrote: > *Hello. My name is Raymond and I am new to open office. I am unsure > how to pose my problem in any of the various forums so I hope sending > this email is the right thing to do.* > *I have been trying to download an upgrade (to v3) but my dialup keeps > dropping the call and the download gets stalled. When I restart my > connection, the download begins back at the beginning. It seems to > happen after about four hours each time and the download is still > around 50% or less. I have tried help...but nothing tells me how to > resume a stalled download. Is it possible to resume or would this be > something which has never come up before? Is there a > workaround...like pausing the download before the dialup call gets > dropped, restarting the connection, and then resuming the > download...?? The trick there of course would be to catch it before > the dialup call gets dropped...* *Anyway I hope you can tell me what > I can do. Thank you, Raymond *
See Michael Adams' responses; they're good ones. I'd simply like to add that if you have to continue to download it via dialup, definitely use a download manager as he mentioned, and further, start the download at the end of your day, so the computer can go ahead and do the download uninterrupted; overnight perhaps. I wouldn't recommend BitTorrent and the like simply because my guess at your level of expertise says it may make things more confusing to you than they have to be. But then again if you like an adventure, it's probably the fastest way to download it, but not the most reliable due to your current neophyte status (that's not "bad", it's just a statement). Cheers, Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
