On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Brian Kelsay ripcrd@gmail.com wrote:
they have cycled connections so big downloads die
both ftp and http support "start from position" semantics. wget knows how to use them. I always use wget for big downloads.
wget -c url to restart something (see man wget for possible things that can go wrong)
wget -t inf -w 5m url to have wget keep retrying, waiting 5m between attempts.