Re: [Staffslug] OT:slow Yahoo?

On 26/02/2008, Andrew Edwards <edwards.andrew(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > You on plus net too Kev? > > I get some strange things here. Tried twice to d'load a distro the > > other day, each time it got to 500MB the rate dropped to 20kB/sec then > > failed. Kris got it for me but then threw the CD away so I never did > > get to try it! > > > star downloader - download in chunks of whatever size you want, and > it's freeware... for the windows though > GET OUT!!!! Andy ;-) *please note the grin* Actually, I used to have exactly that happen, Stuart. It was always with Opera though. I haven't seen any downloads do it for a long time now. The thing with Yahoo was that the page would start to load but then it looked awful. If I tried it with Opera (Windows or Linux) it loaded smoothly. Only Yahoo too not Google. Very odd.... -- ============================================== Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Staffordshire _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug