aria2 is another cli option.

Torrents usually work best IMO.
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Jeremy MountainJohnson
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yesterday I was downloading a Manjaro Linux file that was 1.1 gig.
> Two times the download was stopped in the middle.  Both of those
> times I had initiated a second download of a smaller file.  The down-
> load of the smaller files completed fine, but the download of Manjaro
> was halted before completion.  I don't have a real fast internet
> connection, but am getting a great deal on it, so can't complain too
> much.  The machine I was downloading Manjaro on has Fedora
> on it and the machine I initiated the smaller downloads on is
> running Arch.
> Both times the download of Manjaro had gotten over 400 meg.
> It seemed like a waste of resources to download it from the
> beginning multiple times.  Any ideas of things I could do to improve
> the situation?  It would be nice if a download would just slow way
> down for a while rather than being aborted.  Thanks in advance.
>
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