download speed and left

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: download speed and left
started by: anti_microsoft

Posted by anti_microsoft on Sep. 16 2004,23:48

Hello fellow DSLers.

I would like to say that I have used your distro for some time and have seen it get better and better to the point it is now the only one I use. There is one thing I would like to see added as a dialup user, in mydsl I would like when you are downloading files to be able to see the time remaining and bytes left and speed in such instead of watching for my modem lights to stop blinking

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I think you have a great thing going here, keep up the good work!

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Sep. 17 2004,00:36

use wget.

# wget path/to/the/file/you/want/to/download/target

for example, if i wanted to download the firefox.uci file, i would type this:

# wget ftp.ibiblio/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/firefox.uci

-J.P.
SaidinUnleashed

Posted by guest on Sep. 17 2004,06:55

or gLinks if you ar not into CLI but prefer GUI

Posted by AwPhuch on Sep. 17 2004,15:16

Quote (SaidinUnleashed @ Sep. 16 2004,20:36)

wget -b <url.to.file>
is better since it allows you to continue with using that shell for other things...otherwise on a very large download (DSL for example which takes like 10 min to download) I can start the download and continue doing other stuff...

Brian
AwPhuch