To Erik Moeller:
Thanks for splitting the file. I have downloaded and reassembled
everything without problems.
To TimWi:
You should use a Download manager that can resume your
download in the
case of an error. Try, for example,
http://www.getright.com/ (but
that's
just an example, I don't favour any particular
one).
I'm not talking of interrupted downloads, TimWi. As said I downloaded
the same 100 Mb file 8 times. All downloads made it till the end. All 8
files have the same byte count. Yet 4 have the correct MD5 checksum, 4
have not, each one different. I experienced problems like this before,
hence the test.
I'm not an expert on this, but might the TCP/IP internal checksum be so
small that every once in a while a transmission error by chance produces
a correct checksum for the garbled block? Such a rare event would only
be noticed on huge transfers. If one in 400,000 small HTML GETs fails
one would not notice. I one file is sent as 400,000 small packages then
it will be noticed in this all or nothing scenario.
Erik Zachte