From: Rahul Sundaram <rahulsundaram at gmail.com> > you can use curl instead of wget $ curl ftp://ftp.xxx.go.jp/pub/fedora/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-DVD.iso curl: (18) transfer closed with 2147482187 bytes remaining to read It seems this is less endurance than wget... Is any special option required ? // M. Iizuka