The definition of stupid:

[theweaselking]

Putting a 500MB file, which is a FREE DOWNLOAD, behind a gateway where you have to log in to reach it, your login session expires after two hours *and it cuts off the download mid-stream*, and download speed is limited to 80k/s.

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[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Either that, or the definition of devious. Depends on the intent.

ETA: Actually, the definition of stupid would be going back and restarting the download repeatedly, because maybe it'll work this time!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Well, it took until the second try to figure out that it wasn't a random download failure the first time.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Please tell me that at least "resume download" option was allowed? Pwease? Pwetty pwease?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Not unless you have a third-party download manager that the gateway can't see.

Yeah. It's exactly that dumb.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Oh god the stupid, it BURNS!

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

What do you use?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I don't. I hate those things.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Classification approved; placed in the "didn't think this through" subcategory of Stupid.

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

... wait, shouldn't that be enough to download the file?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

In theory, maybe.

If it were exactly 500MB and you consistently got the maximum speed AND it was exactly two hours before the session times out, yes.

But it's not, you don't, and it's not.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

80 kilobits/sec = 10 kilobytes/sec; times 7,200 sec/2 hr = 72,000 kilobytes. Even assuming a thousand KB and not 1024 to the meg, that's nowhere near enough.

And that's at a consistent top speed.

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

Except that an 80k/s download speed will pretty much universally mean kilobytes.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I did mean kiloBYTES a second, meaning 500,000 KB at 80KB/s will take 104 minutes.

But it's not 500,000 KB, you don't get 80 consistently, and it's not actually two hours.

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[zastrazzi.livejournal.com]

Heh. Break out the beers, it's time to sail the fail whale!

[xenogram.livejournal.com]

Now, in the computer age, we can fuck up millions of times faster than was previously possible.

[braneverseeking.livejournal.com]

wget?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

wget = standard HTTP access. That is, unfortunately, the problem.

I got it, by cheating. But no.