[SLUG] dial-up connections

[Jamie Adams]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:45:14PM +0000, Rob Hall wrote:
> Martin Webb wrote:
> 
> >This is really an e-mail for Bob Garrood (have I spelt that right?)
> >At the last meeting, Bob, you mentioned doing large downloads with a 
> >dial-up connection, and having to do something every two hours.  What 
> >was that?
> >I've got a customer complaining of connection going down after two 
> >hours, and it's so long since I used a dial-up for anything serious 
> >that I've forgotten all about them.
> >Any advice?
> >Martin

You could always use wget, which should be installed on your computer
already. It's pretty simple to use and will continue a download if you
are cut off, as long as the server supports resuming. I use it all the
time.

Jamie