BitTorrent is also good when you can use it. The site has to have a torrent link. The Raspberry Pi site does this for their images. I used to use Transmisssion as a client, now I use Deluge (It's in the debs).
If you have cell phone service where you live you can get an "unlimited" plan from Straight Talk (AT&T towers) with a limit of 50-60 GB/month for about $60/month. This does voice/text/data. It's at least 10x dialup, maybe 100x, haven't timed it. I've been on unlimited about a year. Turn on the wifi hotspot option on your phone and use wifi to connect everything through it. Phones you buy from a company like Verizon can't do this, they've been crippled at the factory because the carrier doesn't want you doing it. I've had 4 Motorolas, 2 came from Motorola, 2 from eBay. Same model # as a contract phone but they aren't crippled. You can also unlock the bootloader, root it, install Ubuntu Touch instead of Android, etc. I got my first cell phone to text with, never expected to get on the internet through it. Straight Talk mostly uses unlocked phones. On 7/1/19, Cindy Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/1/19, gru...@mailfence.com <gru...@mailfence.com> wrote: >>> I had a hell of a time pulling it as I did a google search, and when the >>> download had started, google was still in the firefox address bar, and >>> I had to restart a timedout fail several hundred times. So I'm doing it >>> again, and its coming it at an average of 1 meg/sec this time. I got the >>> sha512 and info files too. >>> >> >> try wget > > > Oh, my gosh, YES! "wget -c" rocks on dialup! > > After a quick search, from "man wget" comes: > > -t number OR --tries=number: Set number of tries to number. Specify 0 > or inf for infinite retrying. The default is to retry 20 times, with > the exception of fatal errors like "connection refused" or "not found" > (404), which are not retried. > > For the "-c" flag: > > -c OR --continue: Continue getting a partially-downloaded file. This > is useful when you want to finish up a download started by a previous > instance of Wget, or by another program. > > "wget -c" has been a HUGE HERO in last few weeks. For some reason, > "apt-get install" has multiple times now DELETED partial downloads and > started over when it's for same upgrade version number. Never had that > happen before. > > That's a pain when it's e.g. 20 or 30MB partials that represent 2 or 3 > hours of download wear-and-tear time. "wget -c" gets in there and > successfully FINISHES off that exact same partial dotDEB archive > download now. YES... I've had to learn to... incrementally backup even > partial dotDEB downloads for moments just like this. You do what you > gotta do when *IT WORKS!* > > PS #ThankYou, Developers! > > Cindy :) > -- > Cindy-Sue Causey > Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA > > * runs with birdseed.. and possibly even a Raspberry Pi sooner than > later! k/t #OSNews for being the first to get giddy with that news in > my inbox last week. * > > -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Cities are cages built to contain excess people and keep them from cluttering up nature. Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach
