How to retry connections with wget?

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Published on 2012-10-26T21:27:40Z Indexed on 2012/10/26 23:05 UTC
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I have a very unstable internet connection, and sometimes have to download files as large as 200 MB.

The problem is that the speed frequently drops and sits at --, -K/s and the process remains alive. I thought just to send some KILL signals to the process, but as I read in the wget manual about signals it doesn't help.

How can I force wget to reinitialize itself and pick the download up where it left off after the connection drops and comes back up again?

I would like to leave wget running, and when I come back, I want to see it downloading, and not waiting with speed --,-K/s.

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