Save Broken Internet Connections with GetRight

Even though many people now have high speed internet connections, the downloadable files have also grown in size comparable to these connection speeds. In 1997, when most people connected to the internet with modems, a big download would have been 4 or 5 megabytes (anything over 10 megabytes was considered HUGE). Today, those files could be downloaded very quickly with a cable or DSL connection, but many downloads today are several hundred megabytes, and gigabyte-sized downloads are not uncommon. (This was written in 2007, if you are reading this a year or two in the future, gigabyte-sized downloads may be quite normal and multi-gigabyte downloads may also be common!)

There are many causes of broken internet connections:

• The modem hangs up or the phone line is needed for something else. (This was the BIG reason back in 1997 and still common.)
• The wireless connection drops. (The modern equivalent of a modem hanging up.)
• The computer crashes.
• The laptop battery runs out.
• The power goes off.
• Someone bumps into a wire or cord.
• You just want to do something else now and finish downloading later!

GetRight can solve these problems!
Downloads can be picked up and resumed right where they were stopped--whether that stop was intentional or not.