Download manager hangs

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 04:11:22 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:04 PM, John Selmys <John.Selmys at senecac.on.ca> wrote:
> Hello
>
>   Twice tonight I tried to download the F9 ISO. First the DVD, then the live
> CD. In both cases the download manager hung up at the very end. I had no
> option but to cancel the download. The DVD download wasted 5 hours and the
> CD download wasted another hour. I'm already using F9 on an AMD X2. I
> downloaded F9 ISO when my system was running F8. I upgraded to F9 and then
> gave away my DVD/CD. Now I wanted to get new copies for myself. I do my
> downloads with Seamonkey. It seems like the last chunk of the ISO just can't
> be delivered. I guess I'll have to use bittorrent or perhaps command-line
> ftp. I wonder if Seamonkey's download manager is broken?
>
> John

If a torrent is too slow for you or a firewall is in the way try using
wget from the command line. "wget -c full-url-path-to-file" will
resume downloads.




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