On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I downloaded about 600 megs of Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso starting from > http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all and a thunderstorm came > along and blocked my path to the satellite. A message popped up > indicating the download was finished. Of course it should be 3.1 gigs! > > Is there any way to get that download restarted? When I start over > it does exactly that and starts downloading 3.1 gb again. My > bandwidth is limited and I hate to waste it! I suspect there is no > way to recover but I'm asking to be sure. > > Bob > One of the advantages of using a torrent. It gets checked for completeness every time you restart the torrent client, so even on a noisy telco line, it will eventually get you a good copy. Torrents check the file 64k by 64k, and if the 64k's checksum fails, it goes and gets it again. The problem for folks on a sat link is the turn around time, so it may not ever achieve top speed. But it _will_ eventually get it, one 64k piece at a time if it has to, but only if that block is missing or bad. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Beauty and harmony are as necessary to you as the very breath of life. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
