Hi TJ,
I know I'm jumping in a bit late but there are download managers that allow you to accelerate and/or resume downloads if your connection is broken or an error occurs.
You can browse through popular download managers at
Google and
zdnet I have heard that ReGet Deluxe, GetRight, Download Accelerator Plus, and Internet Download Manager are all good if you use dialup because of their resume and automation features. Since you are on dial up and need to download the download manager, Internet Download Manager is the smallest of these 3 at approx. 1.15 Mb; ReGet is around 1.9Mb; GetRight and Download Accelerator Plus are each around 3Mb. All of these are shareware programs that require purchase after the demo period except Download Accelerator which comes in a free version that allows ads and a premium version with some added features and no ads that requires purchase (the way I see it, either way you pay :rolleyes: ). They all cost in the $25 to $30 range.
Also, you may want to check before downloading any programs from the internet whether it has been checked for spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors at
Softpedia.com Hope this helps.
AmyN
P.S. I have a Mac which is not compatible with any of these programs, but have used
Speed Download (a program for Mac OS X) when I was on dial-up and it saved me from losing my hair in fistfuls at a time on many occasions.
