I'll admit it! I'm cheaply running a dialup ($9.99 mo). Had no problem loading the newsletters. sn11-1204.pdf is 1.4meg, but set to load as it is downloaded (webview format). try SACnews0105.pdf it's only 365k Stan Clark ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Paul Dickson <dickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:00:24 -0700 >This morning I've tried downloading the last two newsletters, only to have >the download stall after 30 seconds. > >Is anyone else having similar problems via dialup? > >I finally got the newsletters after restarting using the continuation >option many times (in 60 to 100 KB chunks). > >If no one else reports problems I'll try again in a couple days to see if >the problem still exists for me. > > -Paul > > >[dickson@violet 09:25:40 FC3-updates]$ wget -c >http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/SACNEWS/sac2004/sn11-1204.pdf -O >~/red/sac/sacnews/sacnews.200411.pdf >--09:25:42-- http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/SACNEWS/sac2004/sn11-1204.pdf > => `/home/dickson/red/sac/sacnews/sacnews.200411.pdf' >Resolving www.saguaroastro.org... 66.107.46.4 >Connecting to www.saguaroastro.org[66.107.46.4]:80... connected. >HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial content >Length: 1,437,842 (691,494 to go) [application/pdf] > >57% [+++++++++++++++++++=> ] 822,296 2.04K/s ETA 04:08 >[dickson@violet 09:26:20 FC3-updates]$ > >(I hit Ctrl-C and restart the download again...) > >