Thanks so much! Never knew such existed! I am new to computers - I still use my Commodore 128. ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "bobby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:47 PM Subject: Re: [users] [site?
> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 00:20 -0500, bobby wrote: > > I had installed open office before, but power went out and lost > > everything in computer for some reason. Anyway, have been trying for > > three days now to download it again. The biblio site I went, I waited > > ten hours to finish downloading, after which I got a message on my > > screen that that file was corrupted. All the other sites I go to, > > some are 29 hour download time, the other 15 hours. I keep losing my > > internet connection before it finishes downloading. Tried to get the > > cd, but the site I went to is revamping, and told me to check back in > > a couple weeks. Question: IS THERE A SITE I can go to where the > > download time won't be so long? I can't keep staying awake nights, > > only to lose my connection and start all over again or find out after > > 10 hours the downloaded file was corrupted. Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I noticed that Ibiblio sometimes is throttled for some reason. Probably > because of load. Try one of the others such as Indiana U which I have > found quite reasonable. > > I alos think you should use a download manager that can resume or take a > look at using bittorrent/p2p download which can also resume. > > The following may help with the download managers and it used to be part > of the download info but I do not see it there: > > Download Managers There are several download managers that > enable you to resume downloading after an interruption. Most of > these are for Windows. For a general survey of the best download > managers, go to: > > * http://www.safer-networking.org/en/articles/download-managers.html > > See also: > > * Free Download Manager > * Downloader for X > * GetRight > * Go!Zilla > * Download Accelerator Plus > * NetAnts > * ProZilla (Linux) > > Hope this helps. > -- > PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. > OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead > http://documentation.openoffice.org/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
