-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-03-01 at 08:52 +0100, David Wright wrote: I missed this answer, sorry.
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...
No, of course my router retrains and reconnect immediately - but it gets a different new IP on the outside. I think Mozilla gets confused - or rather, the server sending to me gets confused, as I'm no longer there on that IP - and Mozilla doesn't think to reconnect and continue the download from that point. On the other hand, wget does, and if it doesn't, I kill it and add the "--continue" option to continue the download. Mozilla download manager is not "state of the art", IMO. Those IP changes seem to happen randomly, perhaps when they are doing maintenance or some thing. Just in case, I reconnected my router to my UPS: perhaps I had a micro-power outage that reset my adsl router. No big deal, I don't have an Internet domain name to keep updated ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEHAT7tTMYHG2NR9URAgRMAJ99LPC55YthaCJY7o7UdpZ3u+5cCACeNQF0 GoHH/fO3dG32ReGoq7RItb0= =E5nz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----