What to do, man?

[sunsoffun]

A strange thing happened to me tonight here in Durban, I had download 250 Megs of a 300 Meg file and a thunderstorm started... do you pull the plug and waste 10% of your usage allowance for the month or do you take the risk of you router get hammered by lightning.

I took the risk of lightning.

Things we have to worry about.

 

[zerofocus]

Downloading without a download manager? You like pain dont you?

 

[koffiejunkie]

Using IE to download anything is just shortsighted. Your IP could just has well refreshed at 99% - thunderstorm or no thunderstorm. Would have been all the same.

 

[Compl33t]

Maybe the server didn't report resuming? ;P

 

[sunsoffun]

Maybe the server didn't report resuming? ;P

I did use a download manager, and yes the server did not support resume... hence the anxiety attack when the storm started.

 

[koffiejunkie]

My bad for making assumptions

 

[nGAGEd55]

I think the Download Accelerator Plus version you pay for can resume a download even if the server ur downloading from doesnt.

 

[koffiejunkie]

As far as I know, so can wget. Google for wget.exe and try it out, it's completely free. The quick and dirty:

wget -t0 -c URL

-t is number of retries - 0 means infinite
-c means continue

 

[swordfish1]

wget rocks, under linux at least

buy a UPS and get your ADSL line through the UPS, it helps sometimes, I don't disconnect mine even when the lightenings fall on the house and haven't blown up yet ... no guarantee though

 

[koffiejunkie]

wget works just as good under Windows. Especially useful when you have to download drivers from HP (why is their site so damn slow?). If wget was my main productivity application, I wouldn't be so opposed to using Windows

 

[sunsoffun]

wget works just as good under Windows. Especially useful when you have to download drivers from HP (why is their site so damn slow?).

They host with Telkom and there cap ran out in the first day.

 

[thewanted_]

Is it possible to multithread with wget?