I'm using my phone as a hotspot to download a 20gb app on my MacBook from the AppStore because don't have internet and am in isolation due to Coronavirus. 1/2 way through the connection was interrupted having used nearly 10GB of my limited allowance and after reconnecting has restarted the download losing several hours of download time!
Is there a way to resume the download where I was?
Best Answer
This is one of those situations where it is relatively easy to force a download to start over… but not vice versa.
If a resumable download is interrupted, then re-starting will automatically resume - unless you have changed browser or cleared its cache [even then a local ISP node may have it cached & rapidly restore the first part], or opened up a brand new connection which the server doesn't recognise as belonging to the original download.
The issue - I suspect, I am no expert in mobile data communications - is that over a mobile connection, it is harder to re-establish that it is the same connection & route to the original download… so it starts over.
I would guess that once that 'trust' has failed, you have no alternative but to start over.