[solved] Re: Incomplete downloads
On Monday 12 May 2008 14:01, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> I have a slow internet connection, and with large downloads it often
>> happens that the download sticks before it is complete.
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with this problem, and is there a way to
>> solve it? And, why does it happen? I'd be curious to know.
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:
> I find it happens with http downloads with a browser. I'm assuming that
> the web server is assuming high-speed internet and is timing-out before
> things are complete on dial-up.
Yes, I think it must be something like that.
"Brian McKee" <brian.mckee@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm not quite sure what 'sticks' means in this context, or how you are
> downloading this stuff (Firefox? or?)
> At any rate, use wget with the -c option - if your download stops or
> gets interrupted the next time you start it, it will pick up where it
> left off.
Gerard Robin <g.robin3@free.fr> writes:
> wget is your friend:
> man wget:
> --------------------------------------8<-----------------------------------
> -c
> --continue
> Continue getting a partially-downloaded file. This is useful
> when you want to finish up a download started by a previous
> instance of Wget, or by another program. For instance:
>
> wget -c ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/ls-lR.Z
> -------------------------------------8<-----------------------------------
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp@aliceadsl.fr> writes:
> Hi Rodolfo. I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say "the download
> sticks before it is complete".
>
> I've only got a 56k dialup connection, and have no problem downloading big
> files, 700Mb .iso's for example. I use the KDE desktop, and use Kget, which
> has resume support for the downloads, and that is assuming that the server
> you are downloading from allows resuming a download, some don't.
>
> For example, you lose your Internet connection, reconnect, and try to resume
> the download. Most servers allow resuming the download and will carry on
> where they left off, and the download will run to completion.
`Sticks' means that sometimes it pretends that the file has been completely
downloaded whereas it isn't; some other times it just stops in the point where
it is and doesn't go further.
The problem seems to be solved using wget instead of mozilla, with the `-c'
option.
Many thanks to all who replied.
Rodolfo
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