On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 12:06 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > I think the current d/l is about as fast as it goes. It has been > normal to wait days for a DVD size thing. > > Hope for no power outage :-) The possibility of interrupted download is why I always use wget for large files. It automatically retries stalled downloads, and if you have to restart completely (as in the case of a power outage) then "wget -c" will continue from where it left off.