Then, inspired by this StackOverflow question, I remembered I had my XVM. I would have switched to a torrent, but our ISP here blocks torrent ports. Then I looked into using a download manager (like DownThemAll) for Firefox to run the download (supports chunking the file and multithreading the download) but I got 403 Forbidden errors because Apple runs the download over HTTP and requires cookies. Also, asking Safari or Chrome to restart the download would restart the download from the beginning, clearly not desirable failure. So when I wanted to download the latest iOS SDK, a 3.5Gb file, things weren't as easy as they seemed.įirst I tried letting our iMac download the file overnight. 15Jan/11 1 Downloading the xCode and iOS SDK on a slow internet connectionĪt home, our internet connection tops out around 60KB/sec - which is really hard to readjust to after experiencing the 20+MB/sec awesomeness which the MIT networks deliver.
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