[ale] large file downloads & Comcast

William Bagwell rb211 at tds.net
Sat Sep 30 20:31:21 EDT 2006


On Saturday 30 September 2006 06:33 pm, Tim Meanor wrote:
>snip
> 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.

Have you tried waiting a few hours and resuming the download? Back when I 
was on dial-up, discovering that Linux had this little "miracle" built in 
was a shining moment! Even with DSL I occasionally pause a download for 
various reasons...
-- 
William



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