[ale] large file downloads & Comcast

[Jerry Yu]

I downloaded Solaris 10 DVD iso w/o problem before.  comcast with Netgear.
if you have the URL, you ought to be able to resume by 'wget -c
http://URL/to/your/iso' to pick up the 49MB left.


On 9/30/06, Tim Meanor <timothy at meanor.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I have a bunch of different PCs hiding behind a LinkSys wireless
> router.  Comcast is my ISP.  I've been trying to download the Ubuntu
> 6.06 PPC ISO.  I have an old Titanium Mac Powerbook on which I'd like
> to try running Ubuntu.  Problem is, the download gets to 649 MB (out
> of about 698MB) and it dies.  By "dies" I mean it hangs, no more data
> comes down, etc.  This happens on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.  I've
> tried downloading via Firefox, IE, Safari, and Curl, but always the
> same result.  I suspect that Comcast is killing the download once it
> hits 649MB, but I'm not totally sure this is the problem.  I've had
> this problem downloading large files before (e.g. trying to download
> XCode resulted in the same problem).  Has anyone had this problem
> before?  Anyone have any insights?  Thanks for any ideas.
>
> -Tim
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