On Sunday 14 October 2007 17:21:09 James Knott wrote: > Charlie Seaman wrote: > > James Knott wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> On Friday 12 October 2007 10:49:16 eileen clerkin wrote: > >>>> hello I am dowloading powerpoint it is coming up as will > >>>> take 11 hours is this true ..... > >>>> thanks > >>> > >>> On a dial up connection, yes it will take a very long time > >>> and it will probably not download correctly. You will > >>> probably have to download it several times before you get a > >>> copy that is not corrupt due to the long download on dial up. > > If there's corruption, IP is supposed to detect the error and > cause a re-transmission. It is intended to be a reliable > protocol over an unreliable medium. At worst, it should simply > fail. While I'm not claiming it's perfect, if there's file > corruption, I'd suspect another cause.
I find that hard to believe. File corruption happens all the time on Dial up and it happens sometimes on High speed. A file can be downloaded using high speed and be corrupt. Go right back to the same download source using the same connection and download the file again and it is fine the second time. -- http://24.197.142.167/~jack/openofficefaq.php Read the OpenOffice.org FAQ Microsoft users go to http://www.pclinuxos.com for a great user friendly Linux experience! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
