7.7. How does the Resume capability work?

When working through a satellite connection, you may at times experience a degradation of signal strength. If the signal drops sufficiently your data connection will be lost. When signal is restored, SAGA's resume capability will now continue the file download from where it dropped rather than force you to download the entire file again. This can offer a substantial potential savings in airtime.

 

But just how does Resume work?

 

Most of us monitor our downloads pretty closely as they process. If signal drops to the point of losing the data connection, SAGA will post a message such as ‘Deactivating Connection’, followed 10 to 20 seconds later with a message ‘Unable to Connect to Server’. At this point, begin monitoring the signal strength meter on your device. Once you see it move to and stabilize at 4 to 5 bars of signal, return to SAGA and press the Download button on the Connect page. SAGA will reach out to your device and commence the dialing process. At some stage within this process, SAGA will post a query to you of the form, Resume Previous Download, Yes or No. If Yes, upon its reconnection to the OCENS Everon servers, SAGA will continue your previous download from the point where the connection broke. If No, SAGA will start from byte 1 and download the entire file or file group again.