HughesNet Update

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  1. dayonaadrie, Dec 4, 2011

    dayonaadrie macrumors newbie

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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.
     
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  2. avflinsch, Dec 5, 2011

    avflinsch macrumors member

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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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