Restart F-13 download?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>    I downloaded about 600 megs of Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso starting from
>    http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all  and a thunderstorm came
>    along and blocked my path to the satellite. A message popped up
>    indicating the download was finished. Of course it should be 3.1 gigs!
>
>    Is there any way to get that download restarted? When I start over
>    it does exactly that and starts downloading 3.1 gb again. My
>    bandwidth is limited and I hate to waste it! I suspect there is no
>    way to recover but I'm asking to be sure.
>
>    Bob
>
One of the advantages of using a torrent.  It gets checked for completeness 
every time you restart the torrent client, so even on a noisy telco line, it 
will eventually get you a good copy.  Torrents check the file 64k by 64k, 
and if the 64k's checksum fails, it goes and gets it again.  The problem for 
folks on a sat link is the turn around time, so it may not ever achieve top 
speed.  But it _will_ eventually get it, one 64k piece at a time if it has 
to, but only if that block is missing or bad.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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