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by rasz 2253 days ago
>you'll be able to start a download at home, hop on your bike, ride to the office, and finish your download without the connection dropping once.

you could do this for over 20 years as long as server supports HTTP/1.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_serving

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The connection does drop though. Range requests just allow you to resume it.