Patience Is a Virtue. Who Knew?

Those of you who know me know that we are still clinging tenaciously to our dial-up connection because it's a) cheap, b) cheap, and c) cheap.

Lately, you will also have heard me whining about said dial-up and making noises about no, really, getting some type of broadband because I would like the ability to download large files. This desire came to a head recently when I attempted several times to download rather large files of about 350MB and every time had my connection crap out in the middle of the twenty hours necessary to download said files on dial-up. I was pretty well resigned to not being able to download anything that required a substantial time commitment until I bit the bullet and got some broadband.

Then I discovered the magic of the download manager (specifically the Free Download Manager) and the ability to resume downloads that have been stopped before their time. That, I have discovered, is all I really needed. Apparently, so long as I know I'm not wasting the twenty-plus hours it might take for a file, I don't really care that it does take an entire day to get one file. Well, I care a little bit that that's more than twenty times longer than a cable modem would take to do the job, but I care a lot more about the $$$ a cable connection or a DSL line would cost. The Free Download Manager, on the other hand, is, well, free.

So, for now, the dial-up stays, slowly but surely getting the job done as it blazes across the internet at 5K/sec.