Pretty confused about what Jdownloader is... JD may accelerate some downloads, but this is not its main purpose. It's main purpose is to download everything: videos, normal files, whatever, and resume them. Reliably. The OP needs good suggestions, not further confusion.
...... downloading ......... 0.2/2.9GB I do feel it well might be a file size related problem. I should check with my ISP to see if they have any file size limitations on my connection. If Win7 had any DL problems along this line, I believe someone on this forum would have mentioned it by now. A resume feature may be a suitable workaround. I've got some good input here, and some directions to go, thanks a lot.
I'll have to check that setting. I would be willing to bet I have the router set to "On all the time". When set to save power, I believe it would only shut down with a lack of activity. Wouldn't the DL be activity, and keep the router awake? I also have a Obi internet phone on the router, and it polls regularly. I've never seen my router sleep or shut off yet.
Age doesn't matter, it's reading and being willing to follow instructions andor answer questions In the far past i was able to get sony playstations online with 7 year old kids by phone and an 80 year old lady (among many others) to get her corporate internet banking software to work.
1.5Mb (megabits---that's what data speed is measured in) is equal to 187.5 kilobytes, and when I had such a connection, downloads always timed out...
Ok, thanks! I found it, and it was indeed checked. I didn't even know about that setting. I removed the check, and we shall see if the ESD file makes it past 2.6GB ....... 0.4/2.9GB That's probably not the problem thou. Like I said, I've been active on the PC with the DL in progress while close to the 2.6GB drop point.
I used it to defeat the captchas. It's main purpose depends on what you use it for. It still wouldn't download "everything". That's why I quit using it. So now you're confusing things.
I use Westbyte's Internet Download Accelerator (Paid) to download files. It has worked well since last 15 years. The only software which I have used for such a long time and continue to use it. I am yet to come across any download manager which hashes any partially downloaded/corrupted download and fills in the gaps just like uTorrent does for incomplete torrents. So if you have a corrupted http download, you have to find exact same torrent and let uTorrent hash the file and download the remaining parts. But so far, it's been a rare scenario and I have managed to do it only for linux isos.
In a normal developed country there is no need for any accelerators, the name is also chosen badly, they accelerate nothing. Maybe one benefit is the pause/resume options. I get about 30MB/s from msft and never had a failure which wasn't hardware/software related. Yes on ru servers i sometimes have failures, retry in ff mostly works..