Try uget. It's designed for exactly this problem. I just used it to get a 55Gb backup file. (Yes, really. The provider refused to split the file up to make it easier to download.) -Josh On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com>wrote: > Here's a second vote for using "wget -c" to restart downloads. It has > worked for me many times. > > Another option in this case would be to use the Manjaro torrents. Not only > will it deal with download interruptions, it may download the file faster > since it will be able to pull from multiple peers at once. > > -- > Michael Moore > > > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Harlan H. Bloom < > harlan at bloomenterprises.org> wrote: > >> Does the file have a direct URL? If so, you could use wget and just keep >> restarting it. Not prettiest method, but it has worked for me several >> times. >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *"Brian Wood" <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> >> *To: *"tclug-list" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> *Sent: *Monday, February 24, 2014 12:22:15 PM >> *Subject: *[tclug-list] Downloads cut off >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> -- >> Brian >> Ebenezer Enterprises - So far G-d has helped us. >> http://webEbenezer.net >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140224/95419b94/attachment.html>