Downloading Videos Over Intermittent Network Connections

I really like the ability to download videos for watching at my own speed rather than my ISP's speed. Since my computer is a laptop, I frequently move around and gain and lose a network connection. Even when the laptop is docked at night, the high-speed "always-on" Internet connection seemingly goes down at random.

I know that Microsoft has solved this problem for Windows Updates by creating BITS and have tried to download Channel 9 videos via BITS. Unfortunately, the moment the connection dies, the entire download has to start over.

Is there any chance that Channel 9 could fully support BITS? MSDN has a helpful article on the topic.

Have you tried http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ ?

Thanks for the suggestion; it works quite well.

>wrong link

Good catch.

>BITS should work

I'll give it another try tonight.

The BITS worked. Hip hip hooray!