[peel] Re: A couple of 10 year olds

[Martin Wheatley]

>
>It's not interrupted downloads as such, most of these megaupload 
>type sites don't support resume unless you go for premium.
>
>I use DAP for most of my downloads and yes occasionally the odd mp3 
>download will interrupt, but then stop, this is normally when I've 
>exceeded a download limit on these file storage sites. Resume is 
>shown as unavailable.
>
>The problem with zip files is a strange one, I can download the same 
>zip several times, but the extract can fail at a different (but 
>repeatable) point for each version of the zip file. Yet compare the 
>file sizes and they're identical to the nearest byte.
>
>I think there is either corruption on my line or on O2's broadband 
>(I've heard of that before) and while the byte size is not affected, 
>then the checksums must not be correct and cause errors while 
>extracting. IN an mp3 file then I suppose unless the incorrect bytes 
>are related to file headers then they will be inaudible glitches in the audio.
>
>When I download from my alternative location on Sky Broadband I 
>don't seem to get those corrupt zips.

Try unzipping with 7-Zip

http://www.7-zip.org/

It's free and I've found it better with unzipping awkward zip files
that ZipGenius (which I mostly use) won't touch

martinw