DaddyO wrote:Well, this morning I'm getting about 700K/sec download speeds, but that's because I started it about 5:40 am before everyone in the US wakes up. I've got to leave before it will finish, so we'll see if it times out again. I've adjusted my computer auto-sleep time to "Never."
Which operating system and web browser are you using?
The reason I ask is that I downloaded the NOTION 4 sound samples yesterday using Safari on the Mac, and the connection was lost a few times, but all I had to do was resume it, and it started from where it stopped . . .
Firefox also does this on the Mac, where both of these browsers on the Mac have "resume" buttons . . .
It could be the operating system and web browser, but another possibility is that your iSP has network management software that disconnects every so often as a sneaky way to throttle throughput, where each time the ISP "disconnects" it also issues you a new proxy or whatever, hence your computer operating system and web browser cannot start from where they stopped and instead have no choice but to start all over from the beginning, where this typically happens when an ISP sets rigid quotas or limits on download traffic, which can be at the daily level, where for example your ISP might have a daily download limit of 3GB, 4GB, 5GB, or whatever, and once you reach the quota, this is all you can download until the next day, which is Draconian, but some ISPs do this intentionally to avoid spending money on equipment and trunk lines or whatever, and if this is what is happening, then you will need to order the physical DVDs . . .
Not lots of FUN!