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HughesNet Update

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dayonaadrie

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I'm on HughesNet satellite internet which only allows unlimited download without slowing me down between 1 and 6 am. I needed updates for my iMac last night, so I stayed up until one in the morning to start them; I would like to know if there's anyway to allow my Mac to update on a schedule, only at those times. An automator script or something.
 
dayonaadrie said:
I'm on HughesNet satellite internet which only allows unlimited download without slowing me down between 1 and 6 am. I needed updates for my iMac last night, so I stayed up until one in the morning to start them; I would like to know if there's anyway to allow my Mac to update on a schedule, only at those times. An automator script or something.
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I was on HughesNet a few years ago and had the same problem. Whenever there was something large I needed to download, I would start it with an at and wget commands

to start a download from the command line
at 0105
wget -c http://www.xxx.xxx.xxx/path_to_file -O /Users/me/Downloads/file_name
<control d>


you could also use curl instead of wget, I prefer wget.
 
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