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