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You might want to look into a *great* utility called "wget".

It's probably comes standard on every modern FreeBSD/Linux implementation, but not many people in the Windows world know about it...

See this for a command-line vanilla Windows version:

and see this for a Visual Basic GUI wrap-around:

If you use the plain-vanilla command-line version, just launch like this:

wget -c

-c tells it to continue if a download is aborted...this way if your modem drops, when you re-connect, just re-issue wget -c and it'll continue where the file was chopped off.

Also, as other people have suggested, the path of least resistance really is to get an el-cheapo NIC and stick it in. It's not elegant, it's not "right" but it's the fastest way to get what you want.

Thanks! TR.

Geeze .... I'm glad altera doesn't waste valuable time on your problem , they have real work to do. They have standardized on the ethernet interface, if you have a desktop spend $15 and buy one, if you have a laptop without one you may have to spend twice that on a USB version or something. You must have lots of time and little work.

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Get a download manager like Gozilla or something. The can resume a aboarded download.

-- Regards Falk

Why not take the ethernet card and attack the connector with wirecutters? You get a MAC address but the net don't work. :)

1. Especially if the problem at hand is that easy to solve, altera should help them out. If a company reacts like that to simple problems I would get suspicious what happens if something serious goes wrong. (BTW.: I had very similar problems with Xilinx in germany.)

1. I always thought that ethernet based protection is particulary useless as one can

- install the software inside a virtual machine with any virtual MAC address one likes

- write a dummy driver that tells the system that a deactivated NIC with the MAC address of choice is present in the system.

The only protection mechanism that is even more useless is volume-ID base protection.

Kolja Sulimma

At this point there is no reason. Altera has provided a license file keyed to the HDD SN. I was also told that this will be added to the web site in the near future just as they have for MaxPlusII.

Yes, I very much should use a program like that. In the past I have preferred not to add more and more utilities to do a job. Often it can cause problems which are hard to pinpoint. But I think this is one case where it is well worth the effort.

My concern is that once installed, I will have no way to control it if I don't want to use it for some files. I remember Netscape adding something like this (or I added some download, I can't remember which). There were times I did not want it to pop up and could not find a way to turn it off. It also showed ads while running.

Anyone know of a review of download utilities that would help me pick one?

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I've tried two or three and now use Download Accelerator Plus.

Leon

Thanks, I'll look at it.