On 03/04/2008 09:34 AM, James Knott wrote: > Estelle Balaty wrote: >> Dear Sirs: >> >> I have tried four times to download, and just when it was closed to the >> Finish, i.e., about 2 1/2 hours before or so, my computer gets disconnected, >> and I am at a loss where to continue where it left off, so I start again >> downloading. Same thing happened each time. >> >> I could not print the instruction, per suggestion, which I am sure would >> help a lot. > > If it's taking hours to download, I assume you're using a dial up modem. > With dial up modems, your connection can easily be lost, aborting the > download. This could be caused by someone picking up an extension on > your phone line or possibly your ISP disconnecting you, because you have > been connected so long. If you cannot download where you are, you could > always go somewhere with a high speed connection and copy the downloaded > file to a CD or USB flash drive. Failing that, there is a list of CD > vendors on the OpenOffice web site. >
Perhaps someone can recommend some good download managers for folks like this? I see the P2P pages off of the OOo download page, but no mention of download managers that will allow a resume if the dialup link is broken - which I think is happening in many of these cases. Anyone tried this Sun Downloader for windows? http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/ Perhaps that could be specifically tweaked for OOo downloads as well. And while googling the sun download manager I stumbled across: http://download.openoffice.org/common/downloadtools.html I wonder why the only way I found that page was via google... For linux I use gwget - and very much like the gui and ability to set the download rate without having to remember the cli options on wget. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
