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Why doesn't pausing and resuming downloads work?

Asked by master5o1

Why doesn't the pause download and resume paused download work? I have tried to download a file and pause, it works. Resume just starts a new download. Any ideas?

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Dmitry Mityugov (dmitry-mityugov) said : 		#1

This may depend on the site you are downloading from. If it does not support download resume, you will not be able to resume your downloads from it, regardless of the browser or download manager used

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attikon (attikon) said : 		#2

That's right. As Dmitry said above, download resume depends on the site and not on your download manager. Although, you may want to use a download manager to make things easier.

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master5o1 (iam5o1) said : 		#3

So it's server dependant. Argh!

-- Know any downloaders for ubuntu that can likely pause/resume a download?

(ie. download = some_linux.iso)

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Dmitry Mityugov (dmitry-mityugov) said : 		#4

I use curl. This is a command-line utility that, well, just suits my needs well :-) I often use it like

curl --connect-timeout 30 --continue-at - --location --remote-time --speed-limit 1024 --speed-time 30 <remote-file-name>

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attikon (attikon) said : 		#5

I think KGet will do the job for you. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGet