OT Computer, downloading updates ??

[Duner Wi]

Land line connection drops me at 60 minutes with out fail. I need a download that takes 65 minutes so at 60 minutes I get dropped and loose everything. Did this twice now and am wondering about a fix. How do I get it to pick up again at point when I got dropped? Thanks!

 

[louis110]

depending on the browser, you may be able to pause the download. try downloading firefox. it has that feature.

 

[JW Axtell]

There are programs out there that allow you to break up downloads into multiple parts. Try a Google search for something like "download managers"
Or, better yet, search for "free download managers"

 

[Duner Wi]

Thank you for the suggestions.

 

[Dunk]

I have thought about this all day...

I still am not sure that I have a good answer for you.

What I would be concerned about is, WHY does it drop after 60 minutes?

If you are paying your ISP for unlimited access, and they are knocking you off after 60 min. I think I would be raising some Ell with them.

Or changing dial up ISPs.

 

[JW Axtell]

(quoted from post at 19:21:47 03/12/09) I have thought about this all day...

I still am not sure that I have a good answer for you.

What I would be concerned about is, WHY does it drop after 60 minutes?

If you are paying your ISP for unlimited access, and they are knocking you off after 60 min. I think I would be raising some Ell with them.

Or changing dial up ISPs.

I don't really know the particulars here but there are still a lot of rural people who don't have much of a choice in ISPs. For two or three years we were a slave to the local ISP (everything else was a long distance call)

 

[Dunk]

(quoted from post at 20:24:07 03/12/09)

(quoted from post at 19:21:47 03/12/09) I have thought about this all day...

I still am not sure that I have a good answer for you.

What I would be concerned about is, WHY does it drop after 60 minutes?

If you are paying your ISP for unlimited access, and they are knocking you off after 60 min. I think I would be raising some Ell with them.

Or changing dial up ISPs.

I don't really know the particulars here but there are still a lot of rural people who don't have much of a choice in ISPs. For two or three years we were a slave to the local ISP (everything else was a long distance call)

I am very rural, and I am VERY lucky to now have cable Internet.

I am at the end of the line.

Not so long ago, I had 2 dedicated phone lines at my home for data, and 2 at my work that they paid for for me to use for a bundled double connection, which still suxed.

As long as you don't need a VPN satellite is way ahead of dial-up.

But still pretty expensive to get started.

 

[Duner Wi]

Dunk, I don't know why I get bounced but 60 minutes is it. Sometimes maybe close to 61 minutes. My options are very limited unless I want to spend money. I can live with dial up as I keep my browser(Firefox) set to minimum content for bells and whistles in some sites. Classic view here works great. I just need it not to drop and loose the whole download. I can srand to re connect and continue on. Thanks

 

[Duner Wi]

I figured someone had been down this road before having dial up dropping connection and down load problems. thanks.

 

[Dunk]

(quoted from post at 21:15:20 03/12/09) Dunk, I don't know why I get bounced but 60 minutes is it. Sometimes maybe close to 61 minutes. My options are very limited unless I want to spend money. I can live with dial up as I keep my browser(Firefox) set to minimum content for bells and whistles in some sites. Classic view here works great. I just need it not to drop and loose the whole download. I can srand to re connect and continue on. Thanks

I'm not convinced that your dial-up options are limited.

I think there are many, many, many, dial up options for you with toll free dial in numbers.

I have been on the Internet since before HTML, before pictures, I knew 300 baud acoustical modems, when you had to put the handset in a cradle, and talk over it.

I really learned the Internet over a 1400 baud connection.

My first real connection was a 2400 baud Hayes personal modem.

I then ran a dial up BBS (Bulletin Board System), and I had PC Pursuit, I could dial in my phone exchange, and dial out in any major phone exchange in the country, as a local number, $25 a month.

My BBS ran world wide Fido netmail and conferences, before the Internet was public.

I ain't no youngun in this stuff.

I may have forgot a lot in my old age though.

I still can't figure out the 60 min timeout.

 

[Kevin in MN]

Depending on the update (like xp service pack 3) you can get CD's from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/sp3/default.mspx

 

[Hobo,NC]

Not a X-pert but i had somewhat the same problem and had to turn my security/anti-virus off to get the down load to complete,,, dunno know why but on this puter its the only one that I have that is so temperamental

 

[bob featherstone]

have a program i downloaded for free called download accelerator really speeds up downloads on dial up but best part is if you get cut off lets you resume where you left off
bob

 

[JW Axtell]

(quoted from post at 21:36:06 03/12/09)

(quoted from post at 21:15:20 03/12/09) Dunk, I don't know why I get bounced but 60 minutes is it. Sometimes maybe close to 61 minutes. My options are very limited unless I want to spend money. I can live with dial up as I keep my browser(Firefox) set to minimum content for bells and whistles in some sites. Classic view here works great. I just need it not to drop and loose the whole download. I can srand to re connect and continue on. Thanks

I'm not convinced that your dial-up options are limited.

I think there are many, many, many, dial up options for you with toll free dial in numbers.

I have been on the Internet since before HTML, before pictures, I knew 300 baud acoustical modems, when you had to put the handset in a cradle, and talk over it.

I really learned the Internet over a 1400 baud connection.

My first real connection was a 2400 baud Hayes personal modem.

I then ran a dial up BBS (Bulletin Board System), and I had PC Pursuit, I could dial in my phone exchange, and dial out in any major phone exchange in the country, as a local number, $25 a month.

My BBS ran world wide Fido netmail and conferences, before the Internet was public.

I ain't no youngun in this stuff.

I may have forgot a lot in my old age though.

I still can't figure out the 60 min timeout.

The 60 minute timeout is a mystery to me too. But the dial-up options may be limited.
Again this is, or was, my case for a couple of years. We live in a small upstate NY town (Franklin, NY) at the time the only phone choice we had was the local telephone company and everywhere outside of Franklin was a long distance call. No toll free numbers period. Only one sole ISP was available as a local call and they couldn't handle the traffic and refused to upgrade. We were finally forced into satellite which was also problematic and expensive. After seven years of this we finally got DSL, so like you, I feel very lucky. However, there are still pockets out there with little, unacceptable, or no choice at all so I know where this guy is coming from.

 

[Duner Wi]

Do you know the name ? I was checking out down load accelerators and many liked them for fast hook ups. Glad they work on dial up too.

 

[RogerN]

I had the same problem when I was on dial up. Every time I tried to down load the anti vius program, it would time out. Can't remember where in my computer settings I had it set to time out after so many minutes. I changed that setting to more time and it worked. A month later switched to dsl and don't have the problem any more. Wish I could help more but I'm NOT a computer wizz.

 

[BillM (OH)]

Yeah, JW, I know all about it. When I"m up on my farm at Titus Lake (Jefferson RD), I have no internet. Neighbor was a Directv installer, so he had free sat service, but he moved to NC. Only way I can get on now is to go to Oneonta or somewhere with free WiFi with the laptop. Have cable modem downhere in Ohio, so am fine here.

 

[JMOR]

look into FlashGet

 

[PDR60]

(quoted from post at 20:36:06 03/12/09)

(quoted from post at 21:15:20 03/12/09) Dunk, I don't know why I get bounced but 60 minutes is it. Sometimes maybe close to 61 minutes. My options are very limited unless I want to spend money. I can live with dial up as I keep my browser(Firefox) set to minimum content for bells and whistles in some sites. Classic view here works great. I just need it not to drop and loose the whole download. I can srand to re connect and continue on. Thanks

I'm not convinced that your dial-up options are limited.

I think there are many, many, many, dial up options for you with toll free dial in numbers.

I have been on the Internet since before HTML, before pictures, I knew 300 baud acoustical modems, when you had to put the handset in a cradle, and talk over it.

I really learned the Internet over a 1400 baud connection.

My first real connection was a 2400 baud Hayes personal modem.

I then ran a dial up BBS (Bulletin Board System), and I had PC Pursuit, I could dial in my phone exchange, and dial out in any major phone exchange in the country, as a local number, $25 a month.

My BBS ran world wide Fido netmail and conferences, before the Internet was public.

I ain't no youngun in this stuff.

I may have forgot a lot in my old age though.

I still can't figure out the 60 min timeout.

Fido netmail, and PC pursuit..... haven't heard those in a long time....

 

[Eldon Booth]

If you can get a copy of Firefox up and runing it will pick up your download where it left off instead of starting all over again. My Internet provider is not the same as my phone line provider although they do have Internet for 3X what I am paying. I think my phone provider is bumping me off because their customers come first. Something I have to live with I guess!
Cheers
Eldon