Download manager hangs

John Selmys John.Selmys at SenecaC.On.Ca
Fri Jun 13 11:00:39 UTC 2008


On 06/13/2008 12:11 AM, Kam Leo wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Hi Kam,

    I knew about wget, but didn't realize it would resume after a 
disconnect. I'll try it.
    Thanks.

    John

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