Download Grief

[spiff]

I'm on dial up connection to the internet on tesco.net. After two hours my session is automatically ended,and it's a nightmare if I want to download large(25+ meg) files.Just wanted to know...1) Is this normal? and 2)Is there a way around it so i can leave my connection open overnight etc. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions! x

[LeMarchand]

1) It's not uncommon - I'm on NTL 600k broadband, and that is supposed to cut out after ONE hour (though I've never noticed it doing so).
2) Never needed to use one, but there are a number of "download managers" that purport to resume broken downloads. This one is free: http://www.leechget.net/en/ , and may help.
I realise that you may be tied into a contract with Tesco, but it is worth looking into a BB connection. If it is possible to get BB in your area, you may find that it is more economical than dial-up if you factor in the costs of the calls. Plus it frees the phone line! (Though with the ladies in my house this isn't necessarily a good thing).

[smorodina]

When I was on dial up I used a download manager (gozilla - which I still use sometimes despite the spyware, but I think others work in the same way) and there are two useful functions. Firstly, it will resume the download of most files where it left off, and secondly, it will redial your connection if you are cut off. So you can leave it all night and it will keep downloading.

[smorodina]

Oops, dual posting. The questioner may be on unmetered, as Tesco net provides this now. They are pretty good too, so perhaps the download manager is the answer. And I can confirm that gozilla, and probably most of the others, does resume broken downloads and will redial.

[sick&tired]

There is a setting in your dial up that you set to tell your connection when to time out, cant remember where as Im on broad band, but, if you go into the properties of your dial up connection it's in there.