Okay, I know this isn't related at all, but I am guessing that someone here might have some idea how to find a fix.
So I've got to get this file downloaded before tomorrow morning onto my home computer. It's about 150MB and I have ADSL via wireless. Unfortunately, my wireless transmitter is downstairs in my roommate's sub-apartment, and the setup was all in Chinese. I do a little chinese, but that stuff is over my head. Moreover, my roommate doesn't have a lot of time where I can just wander down there and try to figure it out one word at a time with a dictionary... Worse yet, the setup program does not support copying to the clipboard so I can use a translation program.
Anyhow, so I'm stuck with the setup I've got.
In the past, I've had difficulty downloading from places such as www.yousendit.com when file sizes have been more than 300MB. Generally, my connection is stable for at least 30 minutes at a time. I get a little pop-up bubble that tells me if there's a connection reset.
So I'm trying to download this 150MB file and something keeps happening to stop it.
The problem is, IE and Firefox both seem to think that if a 150MB file is downloading and something happens to the connection, that the file is completed and finished and I should be happy with it. What I don't understand is why it can't just compare initial total file size (150MB) with the received file size (2-50MB) and realize that it is not actually finished.
If I cancel the download before it is complete, the download will resume where it left off.
The first 5 tries, I got 50MB each time. Since then, I've been getting 1.5-10MB.
If it could resume, that would be fine, but it cannot resume.
This has been a pain in my butt for several months and I have no idea how to fix it.
I'm on my 23rd try already and I can feel insanity creeping up on me.
Does anyone know any tricks? Are there any plug-ins that have intelligent downloaders? |
