Slow and faulty connections have long been the bane of large file downloads. You can be in an airport concourse gathering media over a sketchy WiFi connection to work on a presentation during a long flight, or on the African savannah trying to download a large installation file via satellite link for a solar-powered water pump. In either instance, the cost of having a large file download crash is the same: time lost, productivity drained and the success of the assignment imperiled. It doesn't have to be that way. In this article we show how to create a utility to address the problem of resuming and continuing failed downloads that can be caused by poor connections that are prone to dropping offline during large file transfers.
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